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Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.

Indira Gandhi

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 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
Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
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Bravery Forgiveness History Virtue
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
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
Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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Beginning Deep End Reality
That’s always been my philosophy. – I’ve never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.
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Action Necessary Philosophy
My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
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Liberty Men Theory Woman
There are only moments of happiness – from contentment to ecstacy.
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Contentment Happiness Moments
The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.
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Developing Helping Nations
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
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
It’s not right to say that my father influenced me more than others, and I wouldn’t be able to say whether my personality was formed more by my father or my mother or the Mahatma [Gandhi] or the friends who were with us.
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Father Mother Personality
How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
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Afford Nation
Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.
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Country Freedom
The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
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Earth Peace

Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.

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