"Taiwan matters because of its vital role in spreading democracy in East Asia. Taiwan matters because of its strategic importance to promote peace in the Pacific region."

-- Annette Lu

#Democracy Quotes #East Quotes #Roles Quotes

“Be careful what you say. You can say something hurtful in ten seconds, but ten years later, the wounds are still there.”
“Maybe hallucinations are just another reality that we don't see most of the time”
“When I can relax, and be close to the transcendental core of me, then I may behave in strange and impulsive ways in the relationship, ways I cannot justify rationally, which have nothing to do with my thought processes. But these strange behaviors turn out to be right in some odd way. At these moments it seems that my inner spirit has reached out and touched the inner spirit of the other. Our relationship transcends itself and has become something larger.”
“The North American Church is at a critical juncture. The gospel of grace is being confused and compromised by silence, seduction, and outright subversion. The vitality of the faith is being jeopardized. The lying slogans of the fixers who carry religion like a sword of judgment pile up with impunity. Let ragamuffins everywhere gather as a confessing Church to cry out in protest. Revoke the licenses of religious leaders who falsify the idea of God. Sentence them to three years in solitude with the Bible as their only companion.”
“If I had a choice as to my perfect career, I would make a couple of films a year and then concentrate on natural history.”
“Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible.”

Source : Henry Reed (2005). “Dream Medicine: Learning How to Get Help from Our Dreams”, p.266, We Publish Books
“In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again, back and forth.”

Source : "Taryn Simon's Visual Babel". Interview with Lauren Cornell, www.newyorker.com. August 2, 2012.
“If you only take offense when the president of your party is compared to Hitler, then you're part of the problem.”

Source : "The Ugly Party vs. the Grown-Up Party". www.washingtonpost.com. June 30, 2010.

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