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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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Until the day she died, my mother continued to fight for the rights of women. She joined all the women's movements of the time she stirred up a lot of revolts. She was a great woman, a great figure. Women today would like her immensely.
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India wants to avoid a war at all costs but it is not a one-sided affair, you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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I always stayed married to my husband! Always, until the day he died! It's not true that we were separated!
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It's not at all hard to reconcile the two things if you organize your time intelligently. Even when my sons were little, I was working.
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In any case, I married Feroze Gandhi. Once I get an idea in my head, no one in the world can make me change my mind.
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I'm not interested in one label or the other - I'm only interested in solving certain problems, in getting where I want to go.
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For me it's absolutely the same - I treat one and the other in exactly the same way. As persons, that is, not as men and women. But, even here, you have to consider the fact that I've had a very special education, that I'm the daughter of a man like my father and a woman like my mother.
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The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.
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I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
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in today's world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.
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You found an uncle on one side and a nephew on the other, a cousin here and a cousin there. Besides it's still true today. I'll tell you something else. There was a time when even two ambassadors to Switzerland, the one from India and the one from Pakistan, were two blood brothers. Oh, the Partition imposed on us by the British was so unnatural!
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Little by little I changed my mind, and when I was about eighteen, I began to consider the possibility of getting married. Not to have a husband, but to have children.
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We know very well that India's destiny is linked to world peace.
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If by happiness you mean ecstasy ... Yes, I've known ecstasy, and it's a blessing to be able to say it because those who can say it are very few. But ecstasy doesn't last long and is seldom if ever repeated.
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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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I want to succeed. And I want to succeed in the best way possible, without caring whether people call my actions leftist or rightist.
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I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
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Politics...You see, it depends on what kind of politics. What we did during my father's generation was a duty. And it was beautiful because its goal was the conquest of freedom.
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Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
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Being prime minister isn't the only job in life! As far as I'm concerned, I could live in a village and be satisfied.
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