Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.
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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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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To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others.
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It is not power that corrupts but 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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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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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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My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace – it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world.
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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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There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.
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I’ve always thought that the best solution for those who feel helpless is for them to help others.
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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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Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.
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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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The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.
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