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The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation’s development.

Aung San Suu Kyi

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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
If you want democracy, you have got to be prepared to accept the responsibilities of democracy.
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Accept Democracy Prepare Responsibility
If you feel helpless, go help someone.
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Feel Helpless Someone
I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don’t believe in people just hoping.
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Believe Clear Fairly Happy Hope Made Now People Just Think Word
Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not “given”, it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.
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Courage Democratic Earn Given Liberty Other Political Resolution Right Sacrifice Social Through Value
With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.
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Country Institution Kind Law Progress Quickly Right Rule Start State Very
It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.
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Difficult Dispel Fera Freedom Ignorance Pursue Truth Unfetter Unless
If you give in to intimidation, you’ll go on being intimidated
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Being Give Intimidation
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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Assertion Bring Free Idea Intellectual Last Nation Persistent Project Regime Relentless Righteous Totalitarian
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
Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
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Belligerent Contest Deal Even Goal Government Nation Ost Peace
One should mature over 20 years.
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Mature One Over Should Twenty
There is no hope without endeavor.
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Endeavor Hope No Without
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
As I travel through my country, people often ask me how it feels to have been imprisoned in my home -first for six years, then for 19 months.
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Ask Been Country Feel First Home How Imprisoned Month Ninteen Often People Six Through Travel Year
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
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
I think more women should be involved in politics for the good of the human race.
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Good Human Involve More Politics Race Think Women
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
Kindness can change the lives of people.
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Change Kindness Live People
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
The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation’s development.
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I chose to walk on this journey, because I solely believed in it and wholeheartedly decided to do so, and I’m willing and able to pay for the consequences.
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Able Belive Choe Consequence Decide Do Horney Pay Wholeheartedly Willing
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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Basic Community Country Deprived Good Government Institution Insufficiency International Investment Make Part Poor Practice Struggle Understand
The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.
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Country Fear Freedom People Security Want
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
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

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