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I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.

Indira Gandhi

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

Courage Opportunity Perseverance
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
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
I don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
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Unity World
The future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
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Difficult Future Scare
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
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
People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
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Hands Inspirational Life People Women
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
Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
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Easy Worth
Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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Beginning Deep End Reality
The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
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Earth Peace
Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.
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Defeat Pain Victory
Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
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Bravery Forgiveness History Virtue
There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
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Atheist Eat Existence Memorable Women
To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
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Desire Function Politics

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