"We sincerely hope that south Asian countries will respect and live in amity with each other, and achieve common development, and that south Asia will enjoy peace, stability and prosperity."

-- Li Peng

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“BYU takes on defending national champion Florida State in the Pigskin Classic in Jacksonville, Fla., eight days after announcing that the 2000 season would be his last before retirement: We looked at it. We knew it would make things tougher. But how many chances does anyone get to play Florida State? It was too good to pass up.”
“Yet much remains To conquer still; peace hath her victories No less renowned then war, new foes arise Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains: Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw.”
“You got to have the killer instinct. If you do not have it, forget about basketball and go into social psychology or something. If you sometimes wonder if you've got it, you ain't got it. No pussycats, please.”
“Abstract ideas are the patterns two or more memories have in common.”
“Every day, a piece of music, a short story, or a poem dies because its existence is no longer justified in our time. And things that were once considered immortal have become mortal again, no one knows them anymore. Even though they deserve to survive.”

Source : Elfriede Jelinek (2010). “The Piano Teacher”, p.64, Profile Books
“Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.”

Source : "How My Mind Writes Poems" by Robert Pinsky, bigthink.com.
“We know that a ready amnesty tends to be an invitation to more illegal entries.”
“You canâ€™t stop a revolution from breathinâ€™, so to beat â€˜em they offer people the illusion of freedom.”

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