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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.

Indira Gandhi

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
The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
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Believe Hope Life Purpose
You don’t help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.
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Country Defeat Democracy Military
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Father Ideas Mindset
I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
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Job Mom Perfection
My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
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Liberty Men Theory Woman
As a nation, I believe we’ve acquired faith in ourselves.
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Believe Nation
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
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
Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
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Appreciate Diversity Endurance Justice Logic
People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
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Hands Inspirational Life People Women
When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
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Selfish Young
The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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Human Inspirational Leadership Life Progress
what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
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Needs Popularity Right Wise
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

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