Some of the most relaxing weekends I have ever enjoyed were those I spent quietly with a sense of all work to date completed, and an absorbing mystery.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIPart 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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There is nothing to compare with the courage of ordinary people whose names are unknown and whose sacrifices pass unnoticed.
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There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.
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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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Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
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My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.
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We have to choose between dialogue and utter devastation.
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I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don’t believe in people just hoping.
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Courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one’s actions, courage that could be described as ‘grace under pressure’ – grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.
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I don’t like to be called a symbol. And I don’t like to be called an icon. I will just say that I have to work very, very hard. So I’d rather be known as a hard worker. I don’t think symbols do much, nor icons.
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We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.
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Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.
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You must have perseverance, and then you must have wisdom. Then you combine these four and then you get to where you want to get to.
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It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.
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The four basic ingredients for success are: you must have the will to want something; you must have the right kind of attitude.
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Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.
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