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When it’s impossible, it’s better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.

Indira Gandhi

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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Father Mother Personality
People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
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Hands Inspirational Life People Women
My father was a saint. I’m not.
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Father Saint
Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.
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Brave One Liner Virtue
Life is a continuous process of adjustment.
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Life Myself One Liner Process
When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
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Selfish Young
To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more alms they can beg.
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Blessing Children Investment Religious
To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
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Desire Function Politics
The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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Human Inspirational Leadership Life Progress
The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
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Company Life Need Young
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.
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Blood Death Life People Strength
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
Life is always full of dangers and I don’t think one should avoid dangers.
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Danger Myself Thinking
Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.
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Art Politics Power
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
Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
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One Liner Popularity Quality
That’s always been my philosophy. – I’ve never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.
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Action Necessary Philosophy
I have certain objectives. They’re the same objectives my father had to give people a higher standard of living, to do away with the cancer of poverty, to eliminate the consequences of economic backwardness.
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Cancer Father Live People
The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn’t mean I’m indoctrinated.
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Ideas Myself
Women sometimes go too far, it’s true. But it’s only when you go too far that others listen.
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Empowerment Listening True Woman
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.
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Acceptance Country Difficult Fight Life Right
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
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Achievement Beginning Dream End Thinking 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
The sterilization of men is one method of birth control. The surest, most radical method. To you it seems dreadful. To me it seems that, properly applied, it’s by no means dreadful.
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Birth Control Mean Men
I learned very soon to get along by myself.
INDIRA GANDHI

Learning Myself
There is not love where there is no will.
INDIRA GANDHI

Love Willing

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