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To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.

Indira Gandhi

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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Father Ideas Mindset
Life is always full of dangers and I don’t think one should avoid dangers.
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Danger Myself Thinking
How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
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Afford Nation
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
I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
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Fall In Love Myself
Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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Beginning Deep End Reality
The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
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Company Life Need Young
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
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
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
People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
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People Politics Remember Right Rights
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
I have certain objectives. They’re the same objectives my father had to give people a higher standard of living, to do away with the cancer of poverty, to eliminate the consequences of economic backwardness.
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Cancer Father Live People
That’s always been my philosophy. – I’ve never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.
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Action Necessary Philosophy
The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn’t mean I’m indoctrinated.
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Ideas Myself
I don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
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Unity World

To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.

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