"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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"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.“
-Indira Gandhi
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"There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group there is less competition there."
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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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"The power to question is the basis of all human progress."
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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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"Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave."
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