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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.

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
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I began to travel by myself, in Europe, when I was eight years old. At that age I was already on the move between India and Swizerland, Switzerland and France, France and England. Administering my own finances like an adult.
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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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We were to equally strong types [with my husband], equally pigheaded - neither of us wanted to give in. And...I like to think those quarrels made us better, that they enlivened our life, because without them we would have had a normal life, yes, but banal and boring.
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The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn't mean I'm indoctrinated.
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It would seem that it was not in the interest of 'someone' for us to make progress. It was in 'someone's' interest that we be always at war, that we tear each other to pieces. Yes, I'm inclined to absolve the Pakistanis. How should they have behaved? Someone encouraged them to attack us, someone gave them weapons to attack us. And they attacked us.
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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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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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The longer one doesn't write, the more difficult it is to communicate.
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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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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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If by happiness you mean instead an ordinary contentment, then yes - I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied - contented.
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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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To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.
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By now even the word socialism has so many meanings and interpretations. The Russians call themselves socialists, the Swedes call themselves. And let's not forget that in Germany there was also a national socialism.
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Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.
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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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Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
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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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I'm told [ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is ambitious. I hope he's very ambitious ambition may help him see reality.
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I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
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