"We sincerely ask the Beijing authorities across the Strait to view the election result from a positive perspective, to accept the democratic decision of the Taiwanese people."

-- Chen Shui-bian

#Views Quotes #People Quotes #Perspective Quotes

“It is yesterday that makes tomorrow so sad.”
“Go out and do something for somebody. Go out and give something to somebody. It will take you away from yourself and make you happy.”
“Men find it difficult because I've got so much energy and hardly sleep at night, only four or five hours. I wake up in the early hours and potter around.”
“Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?”
“If art made you think, then this was Art. Staring at the ball, made of layers and layers of cloth, I wondered about the glass marble at its heart. What if you wanted to reach that marble? Make sure it was still whole? You'd have to remove the layers. You'd have to risk breaking the ball for a chance at freeing it. Fear, knowledge, certainty - you'd have to be willing to let them all go.”
“After the earthquake and the fire comes the still, small voice.”

Source : Dorothy Thompson (1939). “Let the record speak”, Houghton Mifflin
“It is perfectly clear that people, given no alternative, will choose tyranny over anarchy, because anarchy is the worst tyranny of all... The special nature of liberties is that they can be defended only as long as we still have them. So the very first signs of their erosion must be resisted, whether the issue be domestic surveillance by the Army, so-called preventive detention, or the freedom of corporate television, or that of a campus newspaper.”
“The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.”

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