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Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and courage.

Indira Gandhi

How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
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Afford Nation
in today’s world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.
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Country Independent Philosophy World
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Death Fight Mother Time
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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Age Beginning Myself Travel
Life is a continuous process of adjustment.
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Life Myself One Liner Process
The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
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Earth Peace
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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Freedom Nation Strength
Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.
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Defeat Pain Victory
The future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
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Difficult Future Scare
That’s always been my philosophy. – I’ve never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.
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Action Necessary Philosophy
To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
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Desire Function Politics
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
Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.
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Country Freedom
The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
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Believe Hope Life Purpose
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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Blessing Children Investment Religious
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

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