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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

Indira Gandhi

Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.
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Experiences Greatness Maturity Vision
To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
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Capability Faith Oneself
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 theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
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Liberty Men Theory Woman
The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
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Company Life Need Young
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
To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
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Desire Function Politics
You don’t help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.
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Country Defeat Democracy Military
Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
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Bravery Forgiveness History 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
Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and courage.
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Courage Opportunity Perseverance
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
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.
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Father Ideas Mindset
Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
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Faith Inspirational Summer
I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.
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Job Myself Talk
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
Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.
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Country Freedom
I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
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Fall In Love Myself
To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice – I savored every minute of those years.
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Enjoyment Mother Sacrifice
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
As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it.
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Difficult Easy Myself Time
The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.
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Born Control
The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.
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Enemy Ultimate
Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
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Easy Worth
Life is always full of dangers and I don’t think one should avoid dangers.
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Danger Myself Thinking
One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
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Money Motivational Oneself
To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.
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Capacity Enemy Liberty Men Personality

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