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A lot of mythology arose after [Mahatma Gandhi] death. But the fact remains that he was an exceptional man, terribly intelligent, with tremendous intuition for people, and a great instinct for what was right.

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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When it's impossible, it's better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.
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If we offer something to Bangladesh, it's obvious that Bangladesh is offering something to us. And why shouldn't Bangladesh be able to keep its promises? Economically it's full of resources and can stand on its feet. Politically it seems to me led by trained people. The refugees who took shelter here are going home.
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Even I, when I was a student in London, often wore Western clothes, and yet I'm the most Indian Indian I know.
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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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Until the day she died, my mother continued to fight for the rights of women. She joined all the women's movements of the time she stirred up a lot of revolts. She was a great woman, a great figure. Women today would like her immensely.
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Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
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I always defended my father, as a child, and I think I'm still defending him - his policies at least. Oh, he wasn't at all a politician, in no sense of the word. He was sustained in his work only by a blind faith in India - he was preoccupied in such an obsessive way by the future of India. We understood each other.
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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 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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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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It's true that I refused foreign aid. It's true. It wasn't my personal decision, however - it was the whole country that said no.
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To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.
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I'm told [ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is ambitious. I hope he's very ambitious ambition may help him see reality.
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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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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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When one has had a life as difficult as mine, one doesn't worry about how others will react.
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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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You soon realize that the peak you've climbed was one of the lowest, that the mountain was part of a chain of mountains, that there are still so many, so many mountains to climb...And the more you climb, the more you want to climb - even though you're dead tired.
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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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Do you know why I won the last elections? It was because the people liked me, yes, because I had worked, yes, but also because the opposition had behaved badly toward me. And do you know why I won this war? Because my army was able to do it, yes, but also because the Americans were on the side of Pakistan.
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