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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
Politician
Writer
Prayag
Indira Nehru
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Nehru
Indira Ghandi
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Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.
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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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I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.
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They're the problems of poverty, of the rights of the individual, of the changes brought about by technology. They're the ones that count, more than religion!
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No one ever indoctrinated me.
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what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
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My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group there was much less competition.
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The struggle for independence here has been conducted in equal measure by men and by women. And when we got our independence, no one forgot that. In the Western world, on the other hand, nothing of the kind has ever happened - women have participated, yes, but revolutions have always been made by men alone.
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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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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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The India I want, I'll never tire of repeating, is a more just and less poor India, one entirely free of foreign influences. If I thought the country was already marching toward these objectives, I'd give up politics immediately and retire as prime minister.
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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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Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen to me in the near or distant future.
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You said, 'Planning is something for communist countries democracy and planning don't go together!' But, with all the errors we committed, our plans succeeded.
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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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You soon realize that the peak you've climbed was one of the lowest, that the mountain was part of a chain of mountains, that there are still so many, so many mountains to climb...And the more you climb, the more you want to climb - even though you're dead tired.
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We couldn't be everywhere, we couldn't see everything, and it was inevitable that some things would escape us.
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People often ask me: Who has influenced you the most? Your father? Mahatma Gandhi? Yes, my choices were fundamentally influenced by them, by the spirit of equality they infused in me - my obsession for justice comes from my father, who in turn got it from Mahatma Gandhi.
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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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