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My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.
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
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Indira Nehru
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Nehru
Indira Ghandi
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The longer one doesn't write, the more difficult it is to communicate.
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To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
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Unfortunately even in India there are people who talk like that. And they're the same ones who say, 'We should never have accepted the existence of Pakistan. Now that it exists, it ought to be destroyed.' But these are only a few madmen who have no following among the masses.
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Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
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You said, 'How is it possible for democracy to work with an illiterate people who are dying of hunger?' But with that people we made a democracy work.
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I can't take it seriously when people get excited and scream that religion is in danger, and similar stupidities.
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I grew up like a boy, also because most of the children who came to our house were boys.
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Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.
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I would like to ask a question. Would this sort of war or savage bombing which has taken place in Vietnam have been tolerated for so long, had the people been European?
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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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