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Indira Gandhi

The sterilization of men is one method of birth control. The surest, most radical method. To you it seems dreadful. To me it seems that, properly applied, it’s by no means dreadful.
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Birth Control Mean Men
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
The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
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Believe Hope Life Purpose
I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
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Job Mom Perfection
Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
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Bravery Forgiveness History 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
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
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Funny Himself Kind Leadership Success
Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us.
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Care Danger Friendship Generosity Help
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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Freedom Inspirational Learning Women
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
People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
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People Politics Remember Right Rights
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
To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice – I savored every minute of those years.
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Enjoyment Mother Sacrifice
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
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Cancer Father Live People
I am proud that I spent the whole of my life in the service of my people I shall continue to serve until my last breath and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.
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Blood Death Life People Strength
The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.
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Born Control
Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
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Easy Worth
When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
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Selfish Young
Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.
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Blood Development Growth Independence Nation Patriot Strong
How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
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Afford Nation
The future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
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Difficult Future Scare
In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.
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Community Understand Yourself
Ability is not always gauged by examination.
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Ability Examination
There is not love where there is no will.
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Love Willing
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
It’s the same story as when we nationalized the banks. I’m not for nationalization because of the rhetoric of nationalization, or because I see in nationalization the cure-all for every injustice. I’m for nationalization in cases where it’s necessary.
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Cure Injustice Story

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