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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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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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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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I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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I'm trained to difficulties difficulties can't be eliminated from life.
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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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All my games were political games I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
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Finally we promised to limit the birth rate. And this you really didn't believe you smiled scornfully. Well, even in this things have gone well. The fact is that we have grown by over seventy millions in ten years, but it's also true that we have grown less than many other countries, including the countries of Europe.
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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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When [my father] asked me to help him, I really didn't suspect the consequences.
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When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
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I began to associate with Mahatma Gandhi when he came and went in our house - together with my father and mother he was on the executive committee. After independence I worked with him a lot - in the period when there were the troubles between Hindus and Muslims, he assigned me to take care of the Muslims. To protect them.
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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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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 don't see the world as something divided between right and left.
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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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To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
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Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
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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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I think I'm cold, indeed icy, hard. Then there's another reason, one that goes with my frankness: I don't put on act.
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I don't mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.
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