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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.

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
Indira Priyadarshini Nehru
Indira Ghandi
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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. I'm not.
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Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
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When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
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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 sterilization of men is one method of birth control. The surest, most radical method. To you it seems dreadful. To me it seems that, properly applied, it's by no means dreadful.
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The longer one doesn't write, the more difficult it is to communicate.
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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.
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Nowadays you can no longer let yourself be indoctrinated - the world is changing so fast! Even what you wanted twenty years ago is no longer relevant today it's outdated.
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in today's world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.
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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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In India people can't stomach this attitude of mine, and when I say, 'Hurry up, let's get to the point,' they feel hurt.
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Not only Negroes and Jews, but also women are part of a great revolt of which one can only approve.
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In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged.
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