S. R. Nathan Quotes
My own perception is that there are two tiers of countries, one, the original ASEAN, and then the new members. The new members are in various stages of development.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
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In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.
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The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.
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I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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A lot of the fighters will say you'll know if a fighter's won or lost just by a fighter's eyes - whether they're scared of the other person.
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Time alone is irreplaceable. Waste it not.
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I was very well received by Dortmund, by the whole club. I felt a lot of love; a footballer is stronger when he has confidence.
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The reality is, I'm not 24 or 34 anymore. Things are going to be different when I prepare for and when I compete in an athletic endeavor.
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My own perception is that there are two tiers of countries, one, the original ASEAN, and then the new members. The new members are in various stages of development.
