"What gives me concern in so much of the comment is the implication that the people of Hong Kong have to be given a reward, like children, for being good last year, and bribed, like children, into being good next year. I myself repudiate this paternalistic, indeed colonialist, attitude as a gross insult to our people"

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Source : Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 215), March 27, 1968.

John James Cowperthwaite

#Children Quotes #Attitude Quotes #Years Quotes

“After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.”

Source : Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.36, Mondial
“The goal is not to be better than anyone else but rather be better than you were yesterday.”
“Myself, first of all, I am a Jew. And that is the most important thing for me.”
“For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.”
“It's magnificent, but it's not war.”

Source : Quoted in Cecil Woodham-Smith, The Reason Why (1953)
“Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them.”

Source : Source: www.movieweb.com
“When we hold a photo negative up to the light all objects are reversed. Black is white, white is black. Moreover, the character lines of any face in the picture are not clear. Once placed into the developing solution, what photographers call "the latent image" is revealed in the print-darkness is turned to light; and, lo, we have a beautiful picture.”
“If that is what this world is, what humans are... There is no future. Understanding and faith... If you take those away, all that's left is fear. I can't accept immoral methods or giving up.”

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