"With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society."

-- Ma Ying-jeou

#Years Quotes #Taiwan Quotes #Democratic Quotes

“we are the ones we have been waiting for”

Source : Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.342, The New Press
“What is sanity, after all, except the control of madness?”

Source : Josephine Winslow Johnson (1934). “Now in November”, p.95, Feminist Press at CUNY
“We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.”
“I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.”
“My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.”
“Our effort was a serious effort, genuine effort, to open the door for peace, unfortunately, the Security Council is not ready to listen to that message.”
“O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.”
“The 'Mythbusters' crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what's going on, we keep updated.”

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