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The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.

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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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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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People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
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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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America always thought it was helping Pakistan. But if it hadn't helped Pakistan, Pakistan would have been a stronger country.
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People who say it was her father who prepared her for the post of prime minister, it was her father who launched her, are wrong.
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I see nothing wrong in sterilizing a man who has already brought eight or ten children into the world. Especially if it helps those eight or ten children to live better.
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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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I don't care if I remain prime minister. I'm only interested in doing a good job as long as I'm capable and for as long as I don't get tired.
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[Mahatma Gandhi] said that the first president of India ought to be a harijan girl, an untouchable. He was so against the class system and the oppression of women that an untouchable woman became for him the epitome of purity and benediction.
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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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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When I'm not governing my country any more, I'll go back to taking care of children.
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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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Home is wherever I go.
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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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Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.
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When one has had a life as difficult as mine, one doesn't worry about how others will react.
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The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.
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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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Sometimes we hurt one another without realizing it.
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