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When a big tree falls, the ground shakes
Rajiv Gandhi / Former Prime Minister Of India
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Fall
Tree
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I have never felt vulnerable nor restricted in my movements.
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Vulnerable
Movements
Restricted
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There is no problem between Giani Zail Singh and Rajiv Gandhi.
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No Problem
Gandhi
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In Kashmir, you need utmost cooperation between all centres of authority.
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Utmost
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Women are the social conscience of a country. They hold our societies together.
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Our Society
Together
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We took such a beating on Bofors. As far as I know, no one from my government was involved.
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For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.
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Fall
India
People
Powerful
Shaking
Tree
Falls
Great People Always
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We need a better strategy to achieve the national goal of a stable population, healthier and better educated.
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Educated
Population
Stable
Strategy
Healthier
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I think what Punjab needs today is vigorous economic development and rebuilding of trust and social cohesion.
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Cohesion
Economic Development
Rebuilding
Vigorous
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She was mother not only to me but to the whole nation. She served the Indian people to the last drop of her blood.
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Blood
Mother
People
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I find I have less time for everything. The assembly elections came so soon, and there is still so much work to be done.
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Assembly
Time Work Done
Less Time
Work Time Find
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Even before V. P. Singh was shifted, the media was creating an impression that he was facing difficulties. This was totally incorrect.
Rajiv Gandhi / Former Prime Minister Of India
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Impression
Totally
Difficulties
Facing
Incorrect
Shifted
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To the nameless and unsung heroes of our freedom struggle, we offer our humble tribute. Their life-blood nourishes the body of independent India.
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Body
Humble
Independent
Struggle
Tribute
Heroes
Nourishes
Offer
Unsung
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Civilizations are built by the ceaseless toil of a succession of generations. With softness and sloth, civilizations succumb. Let us beware of decadence.
Rajiv Gandhi / Former Prime Minister Of India
Decadence
Generations
Sloth
Softness
Succession
Toil
Beware
Ceaseless
Civilizations
Let Us
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The freedom movement transformed the status of women. Women fought along with men as comrades. In the process, the shackles that had bound them fell away.
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Shackles
Transformed
Freedom Men Women
Comrades
Freedom Women Men
Fought
Status
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We cannot and will not rest until we have won true swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions - until we have wiped out poverty from our land.
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Hungry
Starving
Spiritually
We Cannot
Wiped
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We are committed to the development of friendship and good neighbourly relations with Pakistan. I believe that Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto shares this commitment.
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Friendship
Commitment
Committed
Development
Pakistan
Prime Minister
Minister
Relations
Shares
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There has to be a national consensus. We cannot legislate without overwhelming national consensus that religious and communal groups should be totally banned from politics.
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Banned
Consensus
Overwhelming
Communal
Legislate
We Cannot
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Education must be a great equaliser in our society. It must be the tool to level the differences that our various social systems have created over the past thousands of years.
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Differences
Past
Years
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I didn't have any personal goals when I came, but after being in politics - after seeing people, their difficulties, their wants - I think our goal has to be to eliminate poverty from India.
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Difficulties
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Personal Goals
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Indiraji should have been here today, speaking to you in her gentle, impassioned voice. One with Bharatmata's immortal spirit, she now shines as a lodestar not only for us but for all humanity.
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Gentle
Immortal
Shines
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Our task today is to bring India to the threshold of the twenty-first century, free of burden of poverty, legacy of our colonial past, and capable of meeting the rising aspirations of our people.
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Past
People
Twenties
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The secretariat will play a pivotal role in decision-making above a certain level, where basic policies are involved, but below that, we will have to leave the implementation to whoever is in charge.
Rajiv Gandhi / Former Prime Minister Of India
Decision Making
Implementation
Pivotal
Below
Certain Level
Policies
Whoever
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Development is not about factories, dams and roads. Development is about people. The goal is material, cultural and spiritual fulfilment for the people. The human factor is of supreme value in development.
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Goal
People
Spiritual
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India is an Old country but a young nation…I am young and I too have a dream, I dream of India Strong, Independent, Self-Reliant and in the front rank of the nations of the world, in the service of mankind.
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Dream
Country
Strong
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I think we will be able to work with Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto to reduce tension and concentrate efforts in both the countries on real problems of the people - poverty, social injustice, and development.
Rajiv Gandhi / Former Prime Minister Of India
Injustice
Prime Minister
Real Problems
Social Injustice
Tension
Work Problems People
Efforts
Minister
Reduce
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In every democracy, it is the people's will that is supreme. We should translate the intense yearning of the people of India and Pakistan for friendship into meaningful measures of cooperation in every walk of life.
Rajiv Gandhi / Former Prime Minister Of India
Friendship
Cooperation
Intense
Meaningful
Pakistan
Supreme
Translate
Yearning
Measures
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We have been making changes continuously. You cannot expect everything to be perfect the minute it is made. Things change; they are dynamic as you progress. The requirements change. Demands change. So you change with that.
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Requirements
Continuously
Demands
Dynamic
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I think of those giants who made the Indian National Congress. Seldom has the world seen a nobler galaxy of women and men, so selfless in their devotion to the cause of freedom, so exalted in thought, so brave in action, so pure in spirit.
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Brave
Congress
Devotion
Exalted
Galaxy
Giants
Indian
Pure
Selfless
Freedom Men Women
Freedom Women Men
Seldom
Women And Men
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We must see that regional imbalances in the growth of various parties of the country are removed and all the states progress evenly. We shall ensure that all citizens of the country get full opportunity to contribute their might towards India's progress.
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Opportunity
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Party
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Every person should take a lesson from history. We should understand that wherever there have been internal fights and conflicts in the country, the country has been weakened. Due to this, the danger from outside increases. The country has to pay a big price due to this type of weakness.
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Fighting
Weakness
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I would like to clarify that our opposition to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is not related to any consideration involving Pakistan. Our position on this important issue is consistent and principled. We are not ready to sign the NPT as it stands today because it is blatantly discriminatory in character.
Rajiv Gandhi / Former Prime Minister Of India
Consideration
Consistent
Involving
Nuclear
Opposition
Pakistan
Position
Principled
Ready
Related
Clarify
Discriminatory
Important Issue
Issue
Non-Proliferation
Sign
Stands
Treaty
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How shall we remember Mahatma Gandhi, that eternal pilgrim of freedom? Born of the very spirit of India, steeped in the tradition, the song, the legend of our ancient land - and yet he was revolutionary. Unique among revolutionaries, he marched for freedom, clad in the robe of truth, with non-violence for his staff.
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Ancient
Eternal
Non Violence
Pilgrim
Revolutionary
Staff
Clad
Legend
Gandhi
Revolutionaries
Robe
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Thinking of this University [Ambedkar University] today, we are reminded of Mahatma Gandhi because if there was anyone who fought for the weak in India, the first one to raise his voice for Scheduled Castes, that was Gandhiji. There were social workers before him but not any people who raised this matter in the political arena as he did.
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Thinking
Voice
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To Mahatma Gandhi, the key to India's progress was the development of its villages. In his unified vision, education, agriculture, village industry, social reform all came together to provide the basis for a vibrant rural society free from exploitation and linked to the urban centres as equals. Our planning incorporates this basic insight.
Rajiv Gandhi / Former Prime Minister Of India
Agriculture
Development
Exploitation
India
Industry
Insight
Linked
Planning
Progress
Reform
Unified
Urban
Village
Vision
Basic
Basis
Equals
Gandhi
Provide
Rural
Vibrant
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We must remember that self-reliance and eradication of poverty demands - indeed, compel - the present generation to bear hardship and make sacrifices. Those who are employed have a duty to the future of India. They have to be more productive and consume less so that resources can be made available for investment and for programmes to help poor.
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Available
Employed
Hardship
Investment
Poverty
Productive
Programmes
Resources
Self Reliance
Bear
Compel
Consume
Demands
Generation
Indeed
Sacrifices
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If farmers become weak the country loses self-reliance but if they are strong, freedom also becomes strong. If we do not maintain our progress in agriculture, poverty cannot be eliminated from India.But our biggest poverty alleviation programme is to improve the living standard of our farmers. The thrust of our poverty alleviation programmes is on the uplift of the farmers.
Rajiv Gandhi / Former Prime Minister Of India
Uplifting
Country
Self
Strong
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