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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.

Aung San Suu Kyi

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Challenges mean opportunities as well.
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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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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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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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It is not enough to sit and hope. You have to work in order to realize your hopes.
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Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.
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I don’t like to be called a symbol. And I don’t like to be called an icon. I will just say that I have to work very, very hard. So I’d rather be known as a hard worker. I don’t think symbols do much, nor icons.
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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 courage that dares without recognition, without the protection of media attention, is a courage that humbles and inspires and reaffirms our faith in humanity.
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The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
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If you want democracy, you have got to be prepared to accept the responsibilities of democracy.
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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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To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others.
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Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour.
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When I was in London a Kachin youth criticized me for not condemning the Burmese military for their offensive in Kachin State. I answered “condemnation is not the solution.” We want to build reconciliation, not condemnation.
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The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.
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