I chose to walk on this journey, because I solely believed in it and wholeheartedly decided to do so, and I’m willing and able to pay for the consequences.
AUNG SAN SUU KYICourage 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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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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The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.
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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 may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
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Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.
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I think it’s time for the Army to understand that power should be enshrined in the people if we are to be a genuine democracy and not in any particular institution or organisation.
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If you’re feeling helpless, help someone.
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The important thing is fear should not control your actions. It should not dictate what you do.
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Early 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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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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Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
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To the best of my knowledge, no war was ever started by women. But it is women and children who have always suffered most in situations of conflict.
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We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.
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A revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success.
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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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