It is not enough to sit and hope. You have to work in order to realize your hopes.
AUNG SAN SUU KYIEach 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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Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.
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We have to choose between dialogue and utter devastation.
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If you feel helpless, go help someone.
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Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour.
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I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
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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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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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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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If you are feeling helpless, help someone.
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Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.
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Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.
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It is not power that corrupts but fear.
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I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.
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Intimidation and propaganda work in a duet of oppression, while the people, lapped in fear and distrust, learn to dissemble and to keep silent.
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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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