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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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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 power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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My father cared very much about courage, physical courage as well. He despised those who didn't have it. But he never said to me, 'I want you to be courageous.' He just smiled with pride every time I did something difficult or won a race with the boys.
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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 civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.
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A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
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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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I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
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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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[My mother] was the oldest of two sisters and two brothers, and she grew up with her brothers, who were about her age. She grew up, to the age of ten, like a wild colt, and then all of a sudden that was over. They had forced on her her 'woman's destiny' by saying, 'This isn't done, this isn't good, this isn't worthy of a lady.'
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The Indians and Pakistanis are literally brothers.
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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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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I don't waste time in flowery small talk, as people do in India.
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My father was prime minister, and to take care of his home, to be his hostess, automatically meant to have my hands in politics - to meet people, to know their games, their secrets.
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The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn't mean I'm indoctrinated.
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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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The longer one doesn't write, the more difficult it is to communicate.
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When you look at the beginning of the actual war, it's not hard to recognize that the Pakistanis were the ones to attack.
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