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The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.

Indira Gandhi

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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Acceptance Country Difficult Fight Life Right
How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
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Afford Nation
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
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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Age Class Education Force Liberty
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
The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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Human Inspirational Leadership Life Progress
I don’t mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.
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Blood Death Life Mind Myself Nation Service
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
The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
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Company Life Need Young
Ability is not always gauged by examination.
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Ability Examination
I’ve never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don’t allow themselves any other activities.
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Children Understand Victim Woman
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
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
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
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
Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.
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Experiences Greatness Maturity Vision

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