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

Indira Gandhi

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
The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
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Believe Hope Life Purpose
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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Developing Helping Nations
I’ve never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don’t allow themselves any other activities.
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Children Understand Victim Woman
Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
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Appreciate Diversity Endurance Justice Logic
Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
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Bravery Forgiveness History Virtue
Let’s not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.
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Forget Goddess Strength
Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.
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Art Politics Power
There are only moments of happiness – from contentment to ecstacy.
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Contentment Happiness Moments
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 future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
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Difficult Future Scare
Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.
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Democracy River Women
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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Change Poverty
People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
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Hands Inspirational Life People Women
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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Complaint Impossible People Resistance Selfish
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

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