"It's very important for Taiwan to maintain its international contact."

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Source : "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, edition.cnn.com. February 13, 2007.

Ma Ying-jeou

#Important Quotes #Taiwan Quotes #Contact Quotes

“Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.”
“If the rich could hire others to die for them we, the poor, would all make a nice living.”

Source : "Fictional character: Mordcha". "Fiddler on the Roof", www.imdb.com. 1971.
“[We need not think] that there is any Contradiction, when Philosophy teaches that to be done by Nature; which Religion, and the Sacred Scriptures, teach us to be done by God: no more, than to say, That the balance of a Watch is moved by the next Wheel, is to deny that Wheel, and the rest, to be moved by the Spring; and that both the Spring, and all the other Parts, are caused to move together by the Maker of them. So God may be truly the Cause of This Effect, although a Thousand other Causes should be supposed to intervene: For all Nature is as one Great Engine, made by, and held in His Hand.”

Source : Nehemiah Grew (1965). “The Anatomy of Plants: With An Idea of a Philosophical History of Plants and Several Other Lectures Read Before the Royal Society”
“The farmer doesn't care for the pitchers' battle that resolves itself into a checkers game. The farmer loves the dramatic, and slugging is more dramatic than even the cleverest pitching.”
“may I be I is the only prayer--not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong.”
“In a perfect world, I would be 6-foot-3 and have a perfect head of hair and look like Orlando Bloom.”
“Old age is the time when birthday candles cost more than the birthday cake itself, and half of your urine is wasted on medical testing.”
“Chinese landscape paintings often include tiny figures - as if to emphasize the grandeur of nature of which humankind is one small part. Think of the world in these terms, as larger in scale than the human. This is a healthy corrective to the commonplace view that people own the land, which exists to serve their purposes. Think big and live small.”

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