"That's a mistake I think that a lot of Western observers make is to assume that Korean nationalism is hundreds if not thousands of years old. When in fact nationalism is incompatible with Korean Confucian tradition."

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Source : "North Korea racist, not communist, says author". Interview with Mark Colvin, www.abc.net.au. February 17, 2010.

Brian Reynolds Myers

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“We got the idea of nature almost encroaching. It's incredibly lush, incredibly green, we really popped the colors, lots of deep reds and the greens. It really has a sense of color which is unsettling actually and people are like, "It's so colorful."”
“The Greek makes the distinction between petros and petra simply because it is trying to preserve the pun, and in Greek the feminine petra could not very well serve as a masculine name.”
“Advertising gets such a bashing from the world. At parties you are always asked, 'Aren't you just selling people things they don't want?”
“The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in.”
“Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.”

Source : FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from Oct 22, 2011
“When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.”
“How long have we got? We have to stabilize emissions of carbon dioxide within a decade, or temperatures will warm by more than one degree... We don't have much time left.”
“We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.”

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