"Of course, we also are soberly aware that historical problems remain in cross-strait relations, and that there will be issues in the future that will require time, patience and joint efforts to resolve."

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Source : "China’s Xi pledges peaceful ties with Taiwan in meeting" by Stacy Hsu, www.taipeitimes.com. February 26, 2013.

Xi Jinping

#Issues Quotes #Effort Quotes #Historical Quotes

“Nature is full for us of seeming inconsistencies and glad surprises.”
“We're living through an era of higher income inequality than the country has experienced since before the Great Depression. Meanwhile, most people are running in place, and those in the bottom quintile of the economy are being swept backward year in and year out. A worker with a high school education today is likely to earn less in real terms than did their parents and grandparents in the early 1970s. Not coincidentally, while overall life expectancy is increasing in America, for those with low levels of education it's actually declining.”
“Watch well each separate citizen, Lest having in his heart of hearts A secret spear, one still may come Saluting you with cheerful face, And utter with a double tongue The feigned good wishes of his wary mind.”
“I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one.”
“Ultimately, what really matters is not just the experiences you have at a young age, but whether or not you are equipped-by your parents, by your genetics, by your education-to survive and deal with them.”
“You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused.”
“Memories can be everything if we choose to make them so. But you are right: you mustn't do that. That is for me, and I shall do it.”

Source : William Trevor (2011). “The Story of Lucy Gault”, p.119, Penguin UK
“It's my job in Hollywood to find roles where I get to be a character not a bathing suit.”

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