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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.

Aung San Suu Kyi

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The main aim of the [political] dialogue should be to resolve the problems of the nation, not to find who is the winner and who is the loser.
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Dialogue Find Loser Main Nation Political Problem Resolve Winner
In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth women are not merely “tolerated”, they are valued.
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Confident Men Merely Own Society Tolerate Truly Value Women Worth
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
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
It is not power that corrupts but fear.
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Corrupt Fear Power
Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.
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Always Feel Fundamental Human Lead Less People Right Violation
Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.
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Access Biatant Dangerous Democracy Dictatorship Honesty Inability Intelligence Nature Parody Sometimes Think True
I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
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Alone Freer Own Sometimes Think Time
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
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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Condemning Country Criticize Military Offensive People Person State Youth
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
There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.
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Gain Nasty Nothing Unnecesarlily Violence
Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one’s actions.
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Action Cultivate Dictate Fear Fearlessness Gift Most Perhaps Precious Refuse
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
One should mature over 20 years.
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Mature One Over Should Twenty
If you’re feeling helpless, help someone.
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Feeling Helpless Somehow

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