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I have certain objectives. They're the same objectives my father had to give people a higher standard of living, to do away with the cancer of poverty, to eliminate the consequences of economic backwardness.
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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Whether when I was a child and fought the British in the Monkey brigade, or when I was a girl and wanted to have children, or when I was a woman and devoted myself to my father, making my husband angry. Each time I stayed involved all the way in my decision, and took the consequences. Even if I was fighting for things that didn't concern India.
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Naturally, if the Americans had fired a shot, if the Seventh Fleet had done something more than sit there in the Bay of Bengal...yes, the Third World War would have exploded. But, in all honesty, not even that fear occurred to me.
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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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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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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 see the world as something divided between right and left.
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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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It depends on what you mean by the word religion. Certainly I don't go to temples and pray to the gods or anything like that.
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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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If you only knew what it did to me to have lived in that house where the police were bursting in to take everyone away! I certainly didn't have a happy and serene childhood.
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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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