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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.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I think people prefer the good to win, rather than the bad.
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Bad Good People Prefer Rather Think Won
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
Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
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Able Being Freedom Full Human Need Potential Realize Security World
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
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
How can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it?
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Believe Choose Sacrifice Something
It is not power that corrupts but fear.
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Corrupt Fear Power
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
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
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
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
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
There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.
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Outlet Talk Time
That’s not what it’s all about. It’s to try and find an answer that is acceptable to all parties concerned, which would of course require some give and take.
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Acceptance Answer Concern Course Give Party Require Some Take Try

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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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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