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There are only moments of happiness – from contentment to ecstacy.

Indira Gandhi

We always said that our struggle was not only against the British as representatives of colonialism, it was against all the evil that existed in India. The evil of the feudal system, the evil of the system based on caste, the evil of economic injustice.
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Evil Existance Justice Struggle
I learned very soon to get along by myself.
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Learning 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
I’m trained to difficulties; difficulties can’t be eliminated from life.
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Difficult Life Training
Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us.
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Care Danger Friendship Generosity Help
Let’s not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.
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Forget Goddess Strength
Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.
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Country Freedom
Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
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One Liner Popularity Quality
The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn’t mean I’m indoctrinated.
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Ideas Myself
Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
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Easy Worth
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
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
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.
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Death Fight Mother Time
To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
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Capability Faith Oneself
All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
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Game Politics
There is not love where there is no will.
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Love Willing

There are only moments of happiness – from contentment to ecstacy.

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