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I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.

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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Refuse
Save
Small
Talk
Jobs
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Compliments
Indulge

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It was the very fact that no one ever imposed anything on me or tried to impose himself on the others.
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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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No one wanted that marriage, no one. Even Mahatma Gandhi wasn't happy about it. As for my father...it's not true that he opposed it, as people say, but he wasn't eager for it. I suppose because the fathers of only daughters would prefer to see them get married as late as possible.
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We know very well that India's destiny is linked to world peace.
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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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When [my father] asked me to help him, I really didn't suspect the consequences.
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what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
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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 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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When one has had a life as difficult as mine, one doesn't worry about how others will react.
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Little by little I changed my mind, and when I was about eighteen, I began to consider the possibility of getting married. Not to have a husband, but to have children.
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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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We always said that our struggle was not only against the British as representatives of colonialism, it was against all the evil that existed in India. The evil of the feudal system, the evil of the system based on caste, the evil of economic injustice.
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Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
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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 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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I've always discovered things for myself, in marvelous freedom.
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I always stayed married to my husband! Always, until the day he died! It's not true that we were separated!
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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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Unfortunately even in India there are people who talk like that. And they're the same ones who say, 'We should never have accepted the existence of Pakistan. Now that it exists, it ought to be destroyed.' But these are only a few madmen who have no following among the masses.
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