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Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.

Indira Gandhi

In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.
INDIRA GANDHI

Community Understand 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
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
Life is a continuous process of adjustment.
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Life Myself One Liner Process
I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
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Job Mom Perfection
The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.
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Born Control
How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
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Afford Nation
The future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
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Difficult Future Scare
All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
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Game Politics
Life is always full of dangers and I don’t think one should avoid dangers.
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Danger Myself Thinking
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 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
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
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
When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
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Selfish Young
As a nation, I believe we’ve acquired faith in ourselves.
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Believe Nation
Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.
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Art Politics Power
A nation’ s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
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Freedom Nation Strength
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
To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
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Capability Faith Oneself
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
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
I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
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Fall In Love Myself
Now I don’t get upset by unpleasant things, I don’t play the victim, and I’m always ready to come to terms with life.
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Life Play Upset Victim
My father was a saint. I’m not.
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Father Saint
To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
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Desire Function Politics
Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
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Faith Inspirational Summer

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