"Let's not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti."
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"Popularity is not a gurantee of quality."
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"One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money."
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"Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two."
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"In the Western world, women have no other choice. In India, no. And I'll explain the reason. It's a reason that also has to do with my own case. In India women have never been a hostile competition with men - even in the most distant past, every time a woman emerged as a leader, perhaps as a queen, the people accepted her. As something normal and not exceptional."
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"Ability is not always gauged by examination."
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"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."
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"The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate."
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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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"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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"India had barely become independent, in 1947, when Pakistan invaded Kashmir, which at the time was ruled by a maharajah. The maharajah fled, and the people of Kashmir, led by Sheikh Abdullah, asked for Indian help. Lord [Louis] Mountbatten, who was still governor general, replied that he wouldn't be able to supply aid to Kashmir unless Pakistan declared war, and he didn't seem bothered by the fact that the Pakistanis were slaughtering the population."
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"If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying."
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"Life is a continuous process of adjustment."
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"You soon realize that the peak you've climbed was one of the lowest, that the mountain was part of a chain of mountains, that there are still so many, so many mountains to climb...And the more you climb, the more you want to climb - even though you're dead tired."
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"People with clenched fists can not shake hands."
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"A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others."
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"To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice - I savored every minute of those years."
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"It is legitimate to have one's own point of view and political philosophy. But there are people who make anger, rather than a deeply held belief, the basis of their actions. They do not seem to mind harming society as a whole in the pursuit of their immediate objective. No society can survive if it yields to the demands of frenzy, whether of the few or the many."
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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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"I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger...well, one must risk the danger."
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