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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

Indira Gandhi

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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Acceptance Country Difficult Fight Life Right
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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Country Defeat Democracy Military
Let’s not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.
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Forget Goddess Strength
As my father [Javāharlāl Nehrū] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it – otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.
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Father Ideas Mindset
what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
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Needs Popularity Right Wise
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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Cure Injustice Story
Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us.
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Care Danger Friendship Generosity Help
Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and courage.
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Courage Opportunity Perseverance
Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
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Appreciate Diversity Endurance Justice Logic
How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
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Afford Nation
All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
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Game Politics
That’s always been my philosophy. – I’ve never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.
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Action Necessary Philosophy
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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Death Fight Mother Time
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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Birth Control Mean Men
As a nation, I believe we’ve acquired faith in ourselves.
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Believe Nation
Without peace there can be no prosperity for any people, rich or poor. And yet, there can be no peace without erasing the harshness of the growing contrast between the rich and the poor.
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Growth Peace People Poor Prosperity Rich

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