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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

Indira Gandhi

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Indira Gandhi
Age: 66 †
Born: 1917
Born: November 19
Died: 1984
Died: October 31
Former Prime Minister Of India
Politician
Writer
Prayag
Indira Nehru
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Nehru
Indira Ghandi
Leadership
Progress
Question
Power
Human
Humans
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No one wanted that marriage, no one. Even Mahatma Gandhi wasn't happy about it. As for my father...it's not true that he opposed it, as people say, but he wasn't eager for it. I suppose because the fathers of only daughters would prefer to see them get married as late as possible.
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Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen to me in the near or distant future.
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I've always discovered things for myself, in marvelous freedom.
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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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For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.
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We know very well that India's destiny is linked to world peace.
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I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
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I don't waste time in flowery small talk, as people do in India.
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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.
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[My mother] was the oldest of two sisters and two brothers, and she grew up with her brothers, who were about her age. She grew up, to the age of ten, like a wild colt, and then all of a sudden that was over. They had forced on her her 'woman's destiny' by saying, 'This isn't done, this isn't good, this isn't worthy of a lady.'
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I like to think I've provided this faith. I also think that by providing faith, I've focused their pride. I say focused because pride isn't something you give. It doesn't even break out suddenly it's a feeling that grows very slowly, very confusedly.
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When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
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If by happiness you mean instead an ordinary contentment, then yes - I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied - contented.
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Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.
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When [my father] asked me to help him, I really didn't suspect the consequences.
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My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.
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Do you know why I won the last elections? It was because the people liked me, yes, because I had worked, yes, but also because the opposition had behaved badly toward me. And do you know why I won this war? Because my army was able to do it, yes, but also because the Americans were on the side of Pakistan.
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Nothing can convince me that people are at one with their work unless they're joyous about it.
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The sterilization of men is one method of birth control. The surest, most radical method. To you it seems dreadful. To me it seems that, properly applied, it's by no means dreadful.
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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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