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The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.

Indira Gandhi

Without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue. You have to have courage – courage of different kinds: first, intellectual courage, to sort out different values and make up your mind about which is the one which is right for you to follow.
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Different Intellectual Mind Philosophy Practice
People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
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Hands Inspirational Life People Women
The future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
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Difficult Future Scare
I don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
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Unity World
When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
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Selfish Young
Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.
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Brave One Liner Virtue
Muslim women had to go out in purdah, that heavy sheet that covers even the eyes. Hindu women had to go out in the doli, a kind of closed sedan chair like a catafalque. My mother always told me about these things with bitterness and rage.
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Eyes Mother Oppression Rage Woman
Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
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Appreciate Diversity Endurance Justice Logic
Just when you think you’ve achieved something, you realize you’ve achieved nothing. And still you have to go forward just the same – toward a dream so distant that your road has neither beginning nor end.
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Achievement Beginning Dream End Thinking Yourself
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
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Funny Himself Kind Leadership Success
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
The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
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Earth Peace
The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
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Believe Hope Life Purpose
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
Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
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Bravery Forgiveness History Virtue
To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
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Capability Faith Oneself

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