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![“Satyagraha is an opera which I wrote for the Netherlands Opera, so it uses an orchestra of around fifty, a chorus of forty, and there are about seven soloists. The opera ... Satyagraha means truthful, so it was a name [Mahatma] Gandhi used to describe his civil disobedience movement.” quote by Philip Glass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/da7/philip-glass-14533_chorus_satyagraha-is-an-opera-which-i-wrote-for_2434194.jpg)
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