I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.
INDIRA GANDHIAbility is not always gauged by examination.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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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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My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
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Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
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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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In any case, I married Feroze Gandhi. Once I get an idea in my head, no one in the world can make me change my mind.
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I learned very soon to get along by myself.
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I don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
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I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
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People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
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Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.
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Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and courage.
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The future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
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Without peace there can be no prosperity for any people, rich or poor. And yet, there can be no peace without erasing the harshness of the growing contrast between the rich and the poor.
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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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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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