"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."

-- Aung San Suu Kyi

#Country Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Government Quotes

“I love doing things that are titillating. I think race can be very funny, and I think I'm very comfortable discussing it and bringing it up.”

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“Sometimes,â€ Joe said after a bit, â€œitâ€™s just easier to keep being what everyone expects you to be. Even if thatâ€™s what youâ€™re not, anymore.”
“The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.”
“I don't know if my hairstyles reflect that, but I am someone who enjoys change.”
“To love light, you have to love dark. I'm not trying to be profound, I know you'll understand. I don't mean that you have to hate to love, or that you have to die to live. I mean that sometimes, you turn out the lights just to turn them back on.”

Source : Alaya Dawn Johnson (2013). “The Summer Prince”, p.95, Scholastic Inc.
“The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The stars, almost too many of them to be true, came forward so brightly that it was as if they were falling with the swiftness of the void. As the stars came nearer, the sky retreated deeper and deeper into the night color. The layers of the Border Range, indistinguishable one from another, cast their heaviness at the skirt of the starry sky in a blackness grave and somber enough to communicate their mass. The whole of the night scene came together in a clear, tranquil harmony.”

Source : Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “Snow Country”, p.44, Vintage
“If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.”
“There could never be a more beautiful you; dont buy the lies, disguises and hoops they make you jump through; you were made to fill a purpose that only you could do; so there could never be a more beautiful you.”

Source : Song: More Beautiful You, Album: More Beautiful You, 2009

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