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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.

Aung San Suu Kyi

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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Basic Community Country Deprived Good Government Institution Insufficiency International Investment Make Part Poor Practice Struggle Understand
The peace of our world is indivisible. As long as negative forces are getting the better of positive forces anywhere, we are all at risk.
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All Anywhere Better Force Get Indivisible Long Negative Our Peace Rock World
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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Action Come Courage Cultivate Describe Dictate Face Fear Habit Harsh Pressure Refuse
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
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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Believe Clear Fairly Happy Hope Made Now People Just Think Word
It is not enough to sit and hope. You have to work in order to realize your hopes.
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Enough Hope Order Realize Sit Work
That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power.
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Assurance Close Foundation Human Interpret Mind Peace Power Right Security Uphold
The important thing is fear should not control your actions. It should not dictate what you do.
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Action Control Dictate Fear Important Thing
It is not a sacrifice, it’s a choice. If you choose to do something, then you shouldn’t say it’s a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it
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Choice Choose Force Sacrifice Something You
It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear.
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Condition Easy Enervate Fear Free Iron Miasma might People Principle Rule Themselves Under
Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
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Check Democracy Government People
The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free thought and new ideas and the persistent assertion of their own rightness bring on them an intellectual stasis which they project on to the nation at large.
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Assertion Bring Free Idea Intellectual Last Nation Persistent Project Regime Relentless Righteous Totalitarian
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
I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
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Alone Freer Own Sometimes Think Time
How could I stand the separation from family and friends? It is ironic, I say, that in an authoritarian state it is only the prisoner of conscience who is genuinely free. Yes, we have given up our right to a normal life. But we have stayed true to that most precious part of our humanity-our conscience.
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Authoritarian Conscience Family Friend Normal Precious Prisoner Right Separation Stay True
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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Again Civilize Crush Fear Machinery Man Mist Natural State Under Yet

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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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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