"Hong Kong represents the kind of Asia with which both West and East are comfortable, ... ... It offers, in that sense, a vision for the future of Asia."

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Source : "Governor defends Hong Kong democracy in final speech" by Mike Chinoy, www.cnn.com. October 2, 1996.

Chris Patten

#Vision Quotes #East Quotes #Asia Quotes

“To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.”
“Golf is the only game that pits the player against an opponent, the weather, the minutest details of a large chunk of local topography and his own nervous system, all at the same time.”
“A family is a mystery.”
“May we try to listen and be silent in order to make space for the beauty of God.”
“We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada.”
“As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and let them dwell there.”

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“Sorry, are you telling me that your demon-slaying buddies need to be driven to their next assignment with the forces of darkness by my mom?”
“I was a total sci-fi geek. Star Wars was my ultimate favorite.”

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