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

Indira Gandhi

How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
INDIRA GANDHI

Afford Nation
One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
INDIRA GANDHI

Money Motivational Oneself
I am proud that I spent the whole of my life in the service of my people I shall continue to serve until my last breath and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.
INDIRA GANDHI

Blood Death Life People Strength
When it’s impossible, it’s better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.
INDIRA GANDHI

Complaint Impossible People Resistance Selfish
When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
INDIRA GANDHI

Selfish Young
Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.
INDIRA GANDHI

Defeat Pain Victory
My father was a saint. I’m not.
INDIRA GANDHI

Father Saint
Until the day she died, my mother continued to fight for the rights of women. She joined all the women’s movements of the time; she stirred up a lot of revolts. She was a great woman, a great figure. Women today would like her immensely.
INDIRA GANDHI

Death Fight Mother Time
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Age Beginning Myself Travel
Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and courage.
INDIRA GANDHI

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

Community Understand Yourself
Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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Beginning Deep End Reality
The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.
INDIRA GANDHI

Enemy Ultimate
Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.
INDIRA GANDHI

Experiences Greatness Maturity Vision
A nation’ s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
INDIRA GANDHI

Freedom Nation Strength
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

Age Class Education Force Liberty

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