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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.

Indira Gandhi

what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
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Needs Popularity Right Wise
Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.
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Democracy River Women
Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
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Appreciate Diversity Endurance Justice Logic
The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
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Earth Peace
How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
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Afford Nation
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
My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
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Liberty Men Theory Woman
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
The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.
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Born Control
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
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
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
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
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
Ability is not always gauged by examination.
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Ability Examination
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
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
The sterilization of men is one method of birth control. The surest, most radical method. To you it seems dreadful. To me it seems that, properly applied, it’s by no means dreadful.
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Birth Control Mean Men
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
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
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
Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.
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Brave One Liner Virtue
My father was a saint. I’m not.
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Father Saint
I’m trained to difficulties; difficulties can’t be eliminated from life.
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Difficult Life Training
It is our duty to create a social milieu in which the young and the socially weak feel that the present and future belong to them.
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Feeling Future Social Weakness Young
Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us.
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Care Danger Friendship Generosity Help

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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