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There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.

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
Past
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Brooding
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History
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It's not right to say that my father influenced me more than others, and I wouldn't be able to say whether my personality was formed more by my father or my mother or the Mahatma [Gandhi] or the friends who were with us.
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I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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I've never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don't allow themselves any other activities.
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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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No one ever indoctrinated me.
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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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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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I don't see the world as something divided between right and left.
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Home is wherever I go.
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I'm certainly not tired - work doesn't tire people, it's getting bored that's tiring.
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It's true that I refused foreign aid. It's true. It wasn't my personal decision, however - it was the whole country that said no.
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Until I was about eighteen, yes [I didn't want to get married]. But not because I felt like a suffragette, but because I wanted to devote all my energies to the struggle to free India. Marriage, I thought, would have distracted me from the duties I'd imposed on myself.
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I always defended my father, as a child, and I think I'm still defending him - his policies at least. Oh, he wasn't at all a politician, in no sense of the word. He was sustained in his work only by a blind faith in India - he was preoccupied in such an obsessive way by the future of India. We understood each other.
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The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
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I assure you we'll go on making our decisions without worrying whether it pleases or displeases the Soviet Union, China, America, France, or anyone else.
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Even I, when I was a student in London, often wore Western clothes, and yet I'm the most Indian Indian I know.
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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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I had many dolls. And you know how I played with them? By performing insurrections, assemblies, scenes of arrest. My dolls were almost never babies to be nursed but men and women who attacked barracks and ended up in prison.
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Not only Negroes and Jews, but also women are part of a great revolt of which one can only approve.
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When [my father] asked me to help him, I really didn't suspect the consequences.
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