We have to choose between dialogue and utter devastation.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIRegimented minds cannot grasp the concept of confrontation as an open exchange of major differences with a view to settlement through genuine dialogue.
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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.
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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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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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I don’t think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I’m just rather flexible and adaptable.
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Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.
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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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That’s not what it’s all about. It’s to try and find an answer that is acceptable to all parties concerned, which would of course require some give and take.
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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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Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.
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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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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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One should mature over 20 years.
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There is no hope without endeavor.
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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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The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same.
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