"In this century, the 21st century, the U.S. recognizes our prosperity and our security depends even more on the Asia-Pacific region."

-- Leon Panetta

#Asia Quotes #Prosperity Quotes #Century Quotes

“Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow.”
“Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play.”
“You can have talent and strength, but the most important is determination.”
“In the 21st Century, the anti-traditional marriage community is in league with the anti-life community, and together with the NAACP and other sympathizers, they are seeking a world where homosexual marriage and abortion will supposedly set the captives free.”
“The important thing is to make a different world, to make a world that is not now. A real world, a genuine world, but one that allows myth to live. The myth is everything.”
“If you want to write you should learn the alphabet. You write and write and in the end you hava a beautiful, perfect alphabet. But it isnâ€™t the alphabed that is important. The important thing is what you are writing, what you are expressing. The same thing goes for photography. Photographs can be technically perfect and even beautiful, but they have no expression.”
“Verily, God hath eighteen thousand worlds; and verily, your world is one of them, and this its bright axle-tree.”

Source : Dorothy Dunnett (1972). “The Ringed Castle”, Vintage
“The days of hair tonics have long since passed.”

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