"Hong Kong has been the place where the memory of Tiananmen Square lives on; Hong Kong people have become more and more committed in their resistance to authoritarian government, and also, not surprisingly, committed to safeguarding their culture and heritage as something distinct and worth preserving."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Jess Row

#Memories Quotes #Squares Quotes #Government Quotes

“The future belongs to the educated.”
“The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires.”
“Let no Christian therefore, whether philosopher or theologian, embrace eagerly and lightly whatever novelty happens to be thought up from day to day, but rather let him weigh it with painstaking care and a balanced judgment, lest he lose or corrupt the truth he already has, with grave danger and damage to his faith.”
“Sixty felt like a big landmark. Not in a dreadful sense, but none of the other birthdays have bothered me. It's got labels on it - OAP, retirement - and I just wanted to take stock. I wanted to be in my greenhouse at home and at least give myself the opportunity of not working again.”
“I thought of rhyme alone, For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble And make the daylight sweet once more....”
“Pretty much everybody knows there are not enough organs for all of those patients who need to get transplants, and what happens is, is that organs are actually directed in liver transplantation to those patients who are the sickest. So the patients who have the greatest chance of dying in the next three months or so are the ones who get the priority for the liver transplant.”

Source : Source: www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org
“Because, life's too short, my friends. Let's squeeze in as many laughs as we can get.”

Source : Neil Pasricha (2010). “The Book of Awesome”, p.275, Penguin
“Latin food is my guiltiest pleasure and my demise. My trainer hates when I go home to visit my mom and her cooking.”

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