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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.

Indira Gandhi

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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Achievement Beginning Dream End Thinking Yourself
The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
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Company Life Need Young
People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
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People Politics Remember Right Rights
what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
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Needs Popularity Right Wise
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
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
Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.
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Change Design Pioneers Rebel
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
Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.
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Experiences Greatness Maturity Vision
My father was a saint. I’m not.
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Father Saint
You soon realize that the peak you’ve climbed was one of the lowest, that the mountain was part of a chain of mountains, that there are still so many, so many mountains to climb And the more you climb, the more you want to climb – even though you’re dead tired.
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Death Life Philosophy Yourself
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
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 was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
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Job Mom Perfection
I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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Patriot Proud Understand
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Blessing Children Investment Religious

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