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Kindness can change the lives of people.

Aung San Suu Kyi

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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Call Hard Icon Just Like Say Symbol Very Worry
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
If you want democracy, you have got to be prepared to accept the responsibilities of democracy.
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Accept Democracy Prepare Responsibility
By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.
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Help Learn Other Yourself
Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.
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Age Day Even Heard Loudly Over Voice World
It is not enough to sit and hope. You have to work in order to realize your hopes.
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Enough Hope Order Realize Sit Work
We must contemplate what the meaning of being “educated” is. Some people think a person with plenty of degrees is an educated one. But I believe a person who can judge a situation correctly and make timely decisions is more important.
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Believe Call Decisions Degree Educate Important People Plenty Situation Some Symbol Think
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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Attention Courage Dare Faith Humanity Humble Inspire Media Protection Reaffirm Recognition
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
Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism.
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Alienation Common Feature Inconsistence Logic People Weak
One should mature over 20 years.
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Mature One Over Should Twenty
I was given some Harry Potter books by a young friend. I wanted to know why young people liked it so much. And I noted that there were some values in Harry Potter that are common to many books that are popular all over the world. In the end,
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Books Characters Friends Given Know More Much People Some Young
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
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
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
Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.
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Best Live Our Since World
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
The people have to take part. They have to understand that they have the power to move things, and they must really commit themselves to change if they want it.
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Always Hope Just People Power Understand Word
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
We want to empower our people; we want to strengthen them; we want to provide them with the kind of qualifications that will enable them to build up their own country themselves.
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Build Empower Enable Kind People Provide Qualification Strengthen Want
Courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one’s actions, courage that could be described as ‘grace under pressure’ – grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.
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Action Come Courage Cultivate Describe Dictate Face Fear Habit Harsh Pressure Refuse
There is no hope without endeavor.
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Endeavor Hope No Without
There’s a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.
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Between Checkmate Democratic Difference Process Statement Vast
It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
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Corrupt Encourage Fear Lose Power Subject
We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.
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Destination Hand Join Surely
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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Authoritarian Conscience Family Friend Normal Precious Prisoner Right Separation Stay True
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

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