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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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Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.
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Sometimes we hurt one another without realizing it.
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My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.
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Being prime minister isn't the only job in life! As far as I'm concerned, I could live in a village and be satisfied.
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I began to travel by myself, in Europe, when I was eight years old. At that age I was already on the move between India and Swizerland, Switzerland and France, France and England. Administering my own finances like an adult.
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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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When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
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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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In all societies that have applied a form of socialism, a certain degree of social economic equality has been achieved.
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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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I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
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You don't help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.
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Everything I've done, I've done because I wanted to do it. In doing it, I've plunged in headlong, always believing in it.
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The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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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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It's the same story as when we nationalized the banks. I'm not for nationalization because of the rhetoric of nationalization, or because I see in nationalization the cure-all for every injustice. I'm for nationalization in cases where it's necessary.
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