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My father was a saint. I’m not.

Indira Gandhi

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
The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
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Company Life Need Young
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
We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
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Ourselves Patriot Starve
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
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Funny Himself Kind Leadership Success
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
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
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
People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
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Hands Inspirational Life People Women
Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
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Easy Worth
The future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
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Difficult Future Scare
How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
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Afford Nation
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
In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.
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Community Understand Yourself
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
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

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