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The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.

Indira Gandhi

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
I learned very soon to get along by myself.
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Learning 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
The future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
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Difficult Future Scare
Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.
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Art Politics Power
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
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
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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Freedom Inspirational Learning Women
Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
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One Liner Popularity Quality
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
When it’s impossible, it’s better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.
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Complaint Impossible People Resistance Selfish
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Death Life Philosophy Yourself
I’m trained to difficulties; difficulties can’t be eliminated from life.
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Difficult Life Training
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
Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.
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Deep Forget Silence
My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
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Liberty Men Theory Woman

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