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You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.

Aung San Suu Kyi

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If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.
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Advocate Blind Caution Encourage Faith Future Optimism Want
Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
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Democracy Dream Freedom Give Up never
Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace.
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Action Contribution Every Peace Positive Thought Wholesome
I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.
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Cell Copy Difficulty First Insubstantial Phone Release Sem Small Time Use
Jobless people will have no self-confidence. And they feel they are worthless because when you don’t have a job you have to rely on someone.
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Confidence Feel Job Jobless People Rely Self Someone Worthless
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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Attitude Based Burmese Definition Destroy Factor Mean Negative Peace Really Remove
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
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Fear Freedom Only Prison Real
Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism.
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Alienation Common Feature Inconsistence Logic People Weak
Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
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Civilized Fear Natural People State
How can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it?
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Believe Choose Sacrifice Something
I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.
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Always Freedom Mind Sometimes State Think
Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize.
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Determine Dream Justice Relize
I think people prefer the good to win, rather than the bad.
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Bad Good People Prefer Rather Think Won
If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it’s stalemate.
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Before Checkmate Chess Democratic Game Get Look Many Move Process
Please use your freedom to promote ours.
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And Promote Freedom Our Please Use
When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.
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Certain Decade Divert End Follow Path Personal Reson
The search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility: it indicates an inability to assess honestly and intelligently the true nature of the problems which lie at the root of social and economic difficulties and a lack of resolve in grappling with them.
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Avengation Essential Honesty Indicate Intelligent Nature Problem Responsibility Sacegoat Search True
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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Course Development Fix History Pass People Society Series Show Stage World
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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Believe Demand Describe Fact Investment Life Other Sacrifice Uneasy Word
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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Acceptance Answer Concern Course Give Party Require Some Take Try
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
There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.
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Gain Nasty Nothing Unnecesarlily Violence
To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others.
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Hope Human Kind Need Other Respond Sensitivity Warmth
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.
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Better Direction Effective Government People Side Some Way World
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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Acces Access Power Remove Same Such System Value
Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and uphold the disciplines which will maintain a free society.
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Discipline Free Maintain Men Oppress Process Responsibility Saint Sinner Society Themselves Try Women
There is no hope without endeavor.
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Endeavor Hope No Without

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