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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Indira Gandhi

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
The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.
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Born Control
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
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
Life is a continuous process of adjustment.
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Life Myself One Liner Process
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
I learned very soon to get along by myself.
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Learning Myself
When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
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Selfish Young
Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.
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Deep Forget Silence
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 cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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Patriot Proud Understand
I’ve never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don’t allow themselves any other activities.
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Children Understand Victim Woman
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
To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
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Desire Function Politics
We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
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Ourselves Patriot Starve

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

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