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We would rather starve than sell our national honor.

Indira Gandhi

I have certain objectives. They’re the same objectives my father had to give people a higher standard of living, to do away with the cancer of poverty, to eliminate the consequences of economic backwardness.
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Cancer Father Live People
The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
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Company Life Need Young
Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.
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Brave One Liner Virtue
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
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
The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
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Believe Hope Life Purpose
We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
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Ourselves Patriot Starve
The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.
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Developing Helping Nations
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
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
The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn’t mean I’m indoctrinated.
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Ideas Myself
I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
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Fall In Love Myself
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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Age Beginning Myself Travel
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
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
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

We would rather starve than sell our national honor.

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