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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.

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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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Difficulties can't be eliminated from life. Individuals will always have them, countries will always have them...The only thing is to accept them, if possible overcome them, otherwise to come to terms with them. It's all right to fight, yes, but only when it's possible.
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I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
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In all societies that have applied a form of socialism, a certain degree of social economic equality has been achieved.
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Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
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All my games were political games I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
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Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
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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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Until I was about eighteen, yes [I didn't want to get married]. But not because I felt like a suffragette, but because I wanted to devote all my energies to the struggle to free India. Marriage, I thought, would have distracted me from the duties I'd imposed on myself.
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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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Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.
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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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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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I grew up like a boy, also because most of the children who came to our house were boys.
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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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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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To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more alms they can beg.
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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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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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I don't see the world as something divided between right and left.
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The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
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