"What I have written, I have written."

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Pontius Pilate

“Rich countries want unfettered access to poor countries' markets, which are often heavily protected by tariffs, but they don't want to give up all the protections for their own goods and services.”

Source : "Why the WTO Is Obsolete". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.
“I don't have one favourite band. I like everything.”
“Many priests say that retirement is more identified with freedom from meetings, budgets, personnel conflicts, and "dealing with the Chancery." Even as I struggled not to take that last point too personally, I was reminded that I have heard the same sentiment from many of my bishop friends as well!”
“Things do not exist until they begin to appear.”
“Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species.”
“One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.”

Source : Robert Fortune (1863). “Yedo and Peking: A Narrative of a Journey to the Capitals of Japan and China”, p.11
“Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.”
“I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.”

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