"Secondly I would like to make continuous efforts of stabilising cross Strait relations, eventually reaching peace across the Taiwan strait and stability and security in the Asia Pacific region."

-- Chen Shui-bian

#Peace Quotes #Effort Quotes #Taiwan Quotes

“I collect dice and I collect coins. I travel the world so I love dice, I always have dice on me. I collect magnets as well.”
“It's my job as governor to set a vision.”
“I love being lost! I don't need to control anything. Even with romantic partnerships, I don't need to control anyone. I think I have some very meaningful relationships with people, we all do. At the same time, I recognize that everyone is following their own heart; there's been people who have left my life and I don't have a problem with that.”
“Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually the other way around. Stories cull writers from the world. Stories reveal themselves to us. The public narrative, the private narrative - they colonize us. They commission us. They insist on being told. Fiction and nonfiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons that I don't fully understand, fiction dances out of me, and nonfiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning.”

Source : Source: logger.believermag.com
“Although I felt I was quite good at criticising a philosophical position, I was not very good at defending and making a case for a philosophical position.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Lagrange, in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty (of the parallel axiom). He went so far as to write a paper, which he took with him to the Institute, and began to read it. But in the first paragraph something struck him that he had not observed: he muttered: 'Il faut que j'y songe encore', and put the paper in his pocket.' [I must think about it again]”

Source : "Budget of Paradoxes". Book by Augustus De Morgan (p. 178), 1872.
“Ask yourself, "When does this decision have to be taken?" and having answered it, defer the decision until then, in order to give yourself maximum pondering time.”
“For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead....”

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