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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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Indira Gandhi
Age: 66 †
Born: 1917
Born: November 19
Died: 1984
Died: October 31
Former Prime Minister Of India
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Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi
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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.
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America always thought it was helping Pakistan. But if it hadn't helped Pakistan, Pakistan would have been a stronger country.
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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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By now even the word socialism has so many meanings and interpretations. The Russians call themselves socialists, the Swedes call themselves. And let's not forget that in Germany there was also a national socialism.
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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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I've always discovered things for myself, in marvelous freedom.
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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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Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
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A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
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I don't see the world as something divided between right and left.
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I know I'll astonish everyone by talking like this, but it's God's truth. Honors have never tempted me and I've never sought them.
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Until today the rights of people have always been put forward by a few individuals acting in the name of the masses. Today instead of people no longer want to be represented each wants to speak for himself and participate directly - it's the same for the Negroes, for the Jews, for women.
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The Indians and Pakistanis are literally brothers.
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To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
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The life I've had, the difficulties, the hardships, the pain I've suffered since I was a child. It's a great privilege to have led a difficult life, and many people in my generation have had this privilege - I sometimes wonder if young people today aren't deprived of the dramas that shaped us.
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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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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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