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Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

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Indira Gandhi
Age: 66 †
Born: 1917
Born: November 19
Died: 1984
Died: October 31
Former Prime Minister Of India
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Indira Nehru
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi
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I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
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Just when you think you've achieved something, you realize you've achieved nothing. And still you have to go forward just the same - toward a dream so distant that your road has neither beginning nor end.
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What we do now, on the other hand...Don't think that I'm crazy about this kind of politics. It's no accident that I've done everything to keep my sons out of it, and so far I've succeeded. After independence I retired immediately from politics.
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People often ask me: Who has influenced you the most? Your father? Mahatma Gandhi? Yes, my choices were fundamentally influenced by them, by the spirit of equality they infused in me - my obsession for justice comes from my father, who in turn got it from Mahatma Gandhi.
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When it's impossible, it's better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.
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I know I'll astonish everyone by talking like this, but it's God's truth. Honors have never tempted me and I've never sought them.
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All my games were political games I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
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My father was a saint. He was the closest thing to a saint that you can find in a normal man.
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It's not right to say that my father influenced me more than others, and I wouldn't be able to say whether my personality was formed more by my father or my mother or the Mahatma [Gandhi] or the friends who were with us.
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In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged.
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The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.
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The life I've had, the difficulties, the hardships, the pain I've suffered since I was a child. It's a great privilege to have led a difficult life, and many people in my generation have had this privilege - I sometimes wonder if young people today aren't deprived of the dramas that shaped us.
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My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group there was much less competition.
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Everything I've done, I've done because I wanted to do it. In doing it, I've plunged in headlong, always believing in it.
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I've always discovered things for myself, in marvelous freedom.
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I don't waste time in flowery small talk, as people do in India.
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Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.
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what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
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In all societies that have applied a form of socialism, a certain degree of social economic equality has been achieved.
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