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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

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Indira Gandhi
Age: 66 †
Born: 1917
Born: November 19
Died: 1984
Died: October 31
Former Prime Minister Of India
Politician
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Indira Nehru
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Nehru
Indira Ghandi
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what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
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To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
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Muslim women had to go out in purdah, that heavy sheet that covers even the eyes. Hindu women had to go out in the doli, a kind of closed sedan chair like a catafalque. My mother always told me about these things with bitterness and rage.
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I don't see the world as something divided between right and left.
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You don't help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.
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Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
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Even I, when I was a student in London, often wore Western clothes, and yet I'm the most Indian Indian I know.
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