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I began to travel by myself, in Europe, when I was eight years old. At that age I was already on the move between India and Swizerland, Switzerland and France, France and England. Administering my own finances like an adult.

Indira Gandhi

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

Love Willing
To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
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Desire Function Politics
People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
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Hands Inspirational Life People Women
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
As a nation, I believe we’ve acquired faith in ourselves.
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Believe Nation
Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and courage.
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Courage Opportunity Perseverance
Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.
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Brave One Liner Virtue
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
Until the day she died, my mother continued to fight for the rights of women. She joined all the women’s movements of the time; she stirred up a lot of revolts. She was a great woman, a great figure. Women today would like her immensely.
INDIRA GANDHI

Death Fight Mother Time
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
The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
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Company Life Need Young
How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
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Afford Nation
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
The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
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Earth Peace
what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
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Needs Popularity Right Wise
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
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Difficult Easy Myself Time
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
All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
INDIRA GANDHI

Game Politics
I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
INDIRA GANDHI

Fall In Love Myself
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
Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.
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Country Freedom
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
INDIRA GANDHI

Freedom Inspirational Learning Women
The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn’t mean I’m indoctrinated.
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Ideas Myself
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
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

I began to travel by myself, in Europe, when I was eight years old. At that age I was already on the move between India and Swizerland, Switzerland and France, France and England. Administering my own finances like an adult.

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I began to travel by myself, in Europe, when I was eight years old. At that age I was already on the move between India and Swizerland, Switzerland and France, France and England. Administering my own finances like an adult.

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