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Part of our struggle is to make the international community understand that we are a poor country not because there is an insufficiency of resources and investment, but because we are deprived of the basic institutions and practices that make for good government.

Aung San Suu Kyi

My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace – it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI

Attitude Based Burmese Definition Destroy Factor Mean Negative Peace Really Remove
It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
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Corrupt Encourage Fear Lose Power Subject
Without a revolution of the spirit, the forces which produced the iniquities of the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration.
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Constant Continue Force Order Pose Produce Reform Regeneration Revolution Spirit Threat
As I travel through my country, people often ask me how it feels to have been imprisoned in my home -first for six years, then for 19 months.
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Ask Been Country Feel First Home How Imprisoned Month Ninteen Often People Six Through Travel Year
Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not “given”, it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.
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Courage Democratic Earn Given Liberty Other Political Resolution Right Sacrifice Social Through Value
The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.
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Country Fear Freedom People Security Want
The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.
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Course Development Fix History Pass People Society Series Show Stage World
Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one’s actions.
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Action Cultivate Dictate Fear Fearlessness Gift Most Perhaps Precious Refuse
Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.
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Best Live Our Since World
It is not power that corrupts but fear.
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Corrupt Fear Power
One should mature over 20 years.
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Mature One Over Should Twenty
With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.
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Country Institution Kind Law Progress Quickly Right Rule Start State Very
More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they’ve got to go about it themselves – they can’t depend on a particular person, ie me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what’s going on all over the world.
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Change Depend Especially More Particular People Realise Themselves Want Young
Human rights must be protected by the rule of law, and there can never be occasions where human rights can be neglected or ignored or the rule of law set aside.
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Human Ignorant Neglect Occasion Project Right Rule
The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.
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Good Individual Nation Need Service Sublimate
We have to choose between dialogue and utter devastation.
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Between Choose Devastation Dialogue Have Ulter

Part of our struggle is to make the international community understand that we are a poor country not because there is an insufficiency of resources and investment, but because we are deprived of the basic institutions and practices that make for good government.

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Part of our struggle is to make the international community understand that we are a poor country not because there is an insufficiency of resources and investment, but because we are deprived of the basic institutions and practices that make for good government.

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