"You don't help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime."
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"Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away."
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"We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible"
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"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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"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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"I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely."
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"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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"A lot of mythology arose after [Mahatma Gandhi] death. But the fact remains that he was an exceptional man, terribly intelligent, with tremendous intuition for people, and a great instinct for what was right."
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"When I'm not governing my country any more, I'll go back to taking care of children. Or else I'll start studying anthropology - it's a science that's always interested me very much, also in relation to the problem of poverty. Or else I'll go back to studying history - at Oxford I took my degree in history. Or else...I don't know, I'm fascinated by the tribal communities. I might busy myself with them."
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"We announced that there'd be no more starvation in India. And you responded, 'Impossible. You'll never succeed!' Instead we succeeded; today in India no one dies of hunger any more; food production far exceeds consumption."
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"You said, 'Planning is something for communist countries; democracy and planning don't go together!' But, with all the errors we committed, our plans succeeded."
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"My husband lived in Lucknow. My father lived in Delhi, of course. So I shuttled between Delhi and Lucknow and...naturally, if my husband needed me on days when I was in Delhi, I ran back to Lucknow. But if it was my father who needed me, on the days when I was in Lucknow. And...yes, my husband got angry. And he quarreled. We quarreled. We quarreled a lot. It's true."
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"All unprejudiced persons objectively surveying the grim events in Bangla Desh since March 25 have recognized the revolt of 75 million people, a people who were forced to the conclusion that neither their life, nor their liberty, to say nothing of the possibility of the pursuit of happiness, was available to them."
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"Satisfied is a word I use only in reference to my country, and I'll never be satisfied for my country. For this reasons I go on taking difficult paths, and between a paved road and a footpath that goes up the mountain, I choose the footpath. To the great irritation of my bodyguards."
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"in today's world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence."
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"Have you ever climbed a mountain? You see, once you arrive at the top of a mountain, you think you've reached the highest point. But it's only an impression that doesn't last long."
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"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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"We would rather starve than sell our national honor."
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"Nothing can convince me that people are at one with their work unless they're joyous about it."
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"America always thought it was helping Pakistan. But if it hadn't helped Pakistan, Pakistan would have been a stronger country."
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