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I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.

Indira Gandhi

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  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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  I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger well, one must risk the danger.

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