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.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIJobless 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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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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Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution.
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Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.
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How can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it?
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To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others.
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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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There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.
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Challenges mean opportunities as well.
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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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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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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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If you give in to intimidation, you’ll go on being intimidated
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There’s a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.
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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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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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