"We should not mourn for men of..." - Quote by Indira Gandhi
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.
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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.”
“India wants to avoid a war at all costs but it is not a one-sided affair, you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”
“I don't see the world as something divided between right and left.”
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“If I wished to see a mountain or other scenery under the most favorable auspices, I would go to it in foul weather, so as to be there when it cleared up; we are then in the most suitable mood, and nature is most fresh and inspiring. There is no serenity so fair as that which is just established in a tearful eye.”
“How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.”
“I love thinking, I love coming up with great ideas. I just get excited. Sometimes if I get a big idea, I'm just like a kid, like I've found a new toy.”
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“Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has.”
“I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.”
“The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic, but discover to our sense no plan of house or state of their own.”