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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

Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.
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Deep Forget Silence
There are only moments of happiness – from contentment to ecstacy.
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Contentment Happiness Moments
To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice – I savored every minute of those years.
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Enjoyment Mother Sacrifice
Without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue. You have to have courage – courage of different kinds: first, intellectual courage, to sort out different values and make up your mind about which is the one which is right for you to follow.
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Different Intellectual Mind Philosophy Practice
Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
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Easy Worth
Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.
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Experiences Greatness Maturity Vision
Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.
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Change Design Pioneers Rebel
what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
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Needs Popularity Right Wise
Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.
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Democracy River Women
I’m trained to difficulties; difficulties can’t be eliminated from life.
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Difficult Life Training
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
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
I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
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Fall In Love Myself
The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
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Believe Hope Life Purpose
I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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Patriot Proud Understand
All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
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Game Politics
To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
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Desire Function Politics
As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it.
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Difficult Easy Myself Time
The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn’t mean I’m indoctrinated.
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Ideas Myself
Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us.
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Care Danger Friendship Generosity Help
The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.
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Enemy Ultimate
I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger well, one must risk the danger.
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Danger Risk Thinking
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
To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.
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Capacity Enemy Liberty Men Personality
How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
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Afford Nation
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
My father was a saint. I’m not.
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Father Saint

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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