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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.

— Indira Gandhi

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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.

We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us, to inspire us by their radiant personalities.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

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