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To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.

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
Oneself
Capable
Faith
Become
Must

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I like to think I've provided this faith. I also think that by providing faith, I've focused their pride. I say focused because pride isn't something you give. It doesn't even break out suddenly it's a feeling that grows very slowly, very confusedly.
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The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.
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When I'm not governing my country any more, I'll go back to taking care of children.
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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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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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Still, in international matters, the treaty changes nothing. That is, it doesn't prevent us from being friends with other countries, which indeed we are.
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I suspected [Richard Nixon] was very pro-Pakistan. Or rather I knew that the Americans had always been in favor of Pakistan - not so much because they were in favor of Pakistan, but because they were against India.
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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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You said, 'Planning is something for communist countries democracy and planning don't go together!' But, with all the errors we committed, our plans succeeded.
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Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
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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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Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.
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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 power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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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 not interested in one label or the other - I'm only interested in solving certain problems, in getting where I want to go.
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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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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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I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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Finally we promised to limit the birth rate. And this you really didn't believe you smiled scornfully. Well, even in this things have gone well. The fact is that we have grown by over seventy millions in ten years, but it's also true that we have grown less than many other countries, including the countries of Europe.
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