"When we do work in places like China and Vietnam, research tends to be really effective as a way of getting change, whereas in more open places, mobilization and the creation of public pressure through the media often seem to be the things we try."

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Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

Duncan Green

#Media Quotes #Trying Quotes #Vietnam Quotes

“What's to keep somebody from getting all potted up on weed and then getting behind the wheel?”
“And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you.”
“I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I.”
“Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire.”
“Are we not witnessing a situation where children are conciously rejecting their parents' value despite love and devotion given to them? The present situation has arisen because parents have failed to transmit a sustaining faith to their children. The basic reason for this failure is that the parents themselves lacked faith. Without faith, their love was an image not a reality, a statement of words not an expression of feelings”
“By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.”
“I found the experience of falling in love or being in love was a death, a death of everything. You kind of watch yourself die in a wonderful way, and you experience for the briefest moment â€“ if you see yourself for a moment through their eyes â€“ everything you believed about yourself gone. In a death-and-rebirth sense.”

Source : Interview with Una Mullally, www.irishtimes.com. October 14, 2013.
“The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it.”

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