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If by happiness you mean ecstasy ... Yes, I've known ecstasy, and it's a blessing to be able to say it because those who can say it are very few. But ecstasy doesn't last long and is seldom if ever repeated.

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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Indira Nehru
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Nehru
Indira Ghandi
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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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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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Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen to me in the near or distant future.
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Sometimes we hurt one another without realizing it.
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I would like to ask a question. Would this sort of war or savage bombing which has taken place in Vietnam have been tolerated for so long, had the people been European?
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Our pride has grown in the last twenty-five years, though others don't understand it and underestimate it.
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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 Even what you wanted twenty years ago is no longer relevant today it's outdated.
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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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The future doesn't frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
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It depends on what you mean by the word religion. Certainly I don't go to temples and pray to the gods or anything like that.
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The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn't mean I'm indoctrinated.
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What we do now, on the other hand...Don't think that I'm crazy about this kind of politics. It's no accident that I've done everything to keep my sons out of it, and so far I've succeeded. After independence I retired immediately from politics.
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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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For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.
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I always wanted to have children - if it had been up to me, I would have had eleven. It was my husband who wanted only two.
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You said, 'How is it possible for democracy to work with an illiterate people who are dying of hunger?' But with that people we made a democracy work.
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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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My father was a saint. I'm not.
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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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