There’s a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIEarly childhood development has proved to be very beneficial and very cost-effective in societies where this is been tried. So let’s not confine ourselves to primary education. Let’s think of early childhood development and education as a whole.
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When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.
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All right, your knees may be knocking but that shouldn’t prevent you from going ahead and doing what you need to do.
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The greatest gift for an individual or a nation… was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.
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I do not believe that I’m sacrificing, in fact I feel very uneasy when others used the word sacrifice to describe my life. It sounds like I’m demanding returns for my investments.
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In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth women are not merely “tolerated”, they are valued.
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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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If you are feeling helpless, help someone.
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The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.
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The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.
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Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace.
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I think in some ways it’s better to have the people of the world on your side than the governments of the world, even if governments can be more effective in certain directions.
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I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
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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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Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.
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One should mature over 20 years.
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