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I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.
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Wearing khadi was a badge of honour. It was something one was proud to do.
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If I see something dirty or untidy, I have to clean it up.
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Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.
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The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.
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All unprejudiced persons objectively surveying the grim events in Bangladesh 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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To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.
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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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We do not wish to impoverish the environment any further, and yet we cannot for a moment forget the grim poverty of large numbers of people. Are not poverty and need the greatest polluters?
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There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
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I am frequently attacked.
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My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.
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All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
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I'm certainly not a workaholic.
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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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Winning or losing of the election is less important than strengthening the country.
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All the people who fought for freedom were my heroes. I mean, that was the sort of story I liked reading... freedom struggles and so on.
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This is why we feel that democracy's important: because democracy allows you to have small explosions and therefore avoid the bigger explosions.
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There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.
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My son had nothing to do with policy or decision making, nor did I discuss the elections or any other matter with him.