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How can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it?

Aung San Suu Kyi

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There is nothing to compare with the courage of ordinary people whose names are unknown and whose sacrifices pass unnoticed.
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Compare Courage Name Nothing Ordinary Pass People Sacrifice Unknown Unnoticed
Part 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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People ask me about what sacrifices I’ve made. I always answer: I’ve made no sacrifices, I’ve made choices.
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Always Answer Ask Choice Made People Sacrifice
So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.
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Discrimination End Factor Inequality Mean Other Peace Poverty Put Violence
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 a time to be quiet and a time to talk.
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It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear.
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Condition Easy Enervate Fear Free Iron Miasma might People Principle Rule Themselves Under
Regimented 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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Concept Confrontation Difference exchange Genuine Grasp Major Mind Open Regiment Settlement
It is not a sacrifice, it’s a choice. If you choose to do something, then you shouldn’t say it’s a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it
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The greatest gift for an individual or a nation… was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.
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Absence Bodily Courage Fear Fearlessness Gift Greatest Individual Merely Mind Nation
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
Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it.
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Each Endeavour Help Other Own Potential Realize Realized Truth
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
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Fear Freedom Only Prison Real
Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.
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Amazing Government Last Leade People Seem Want
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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If you feel helpless, go help someone.
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Feel Helpless Someone
There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.
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Gain Nasty Nothing Unnecesarlily Violence
The important thing is fear should not control your actions. It should not dictate what you do.
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Action Control Dictate Fear Important Thing
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 good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.
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Good Individual Nation Need Service Sublimate
Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
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Able Being Freedom Full Human Need Potential Realize Security World
You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.
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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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Aim Genuine Improvement Institution Merely Official Policy Revolution Succes Success View
There is no hope without endeavor.
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Endeavor Hope No Without
How could I stand the separation from family and friends? It is ironic, I say, that in an authoritarian state it is only the prisoner of conscience who is genuinely free. Yes, we have given up our right to a normal life. But we have stayed true to that most precious part of our humanity-our conscience.
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Kindness can change the lives of people.
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Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.
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Best Humor Ingredient Survival

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