Thu 10 Apr 2008
“Wall Street meltdown is far more dangerous than Chernobyl meltdown” by arully 110621
“They had to know .. but the attitude was sort of, ‘If you’re doing something wrong, we don’t want to know.’ ” by Mr. Bernard L. Madoff, the mastermind behind Ponzi Scheme.
“When I am in Mecca and go around the kaaba, I don’t look up.”, by Sami Angawi, a Saudi architect who founded a research center that studies urban planning issues surrounding the hajj, or pilgrimage to Mecca, and has been one of the development’s most vocal critics.
‘Brothers and sisters of #Egypt, you have given the world the most precious gift: the belief that ultimately right will prevail.’ by Desmond Tutu after Egypt liberation from Mubarak regime
“In a country like Egypt, with a pharaonic legacy, having no president and no head of state is not easy” by Amr el-Shobaky, a member of the Committee of Wise Men — a self-appointed group of prominent figures who are allied with the protesters and helping mediate in the crisis.
twitter: #Egypt Regime: “Go back to work!” #Jan25 Protesters: “Go back to hell!”
“We could never say no to Mubarak when we were young, but our young people today proved that they can say no, and I’m here to support them,” said Yusra Mahmoud, a 46-year-old school principal who said she had been sleeping in the square alongside other protesters for the past two nights.
Share government’s secrets, go to jail. Share normal people’s secrets, TIME man of the year!
“If Israeli Jews can’t coexist with that minority, then how can they live in peace with the region’s 400 million Arabs”, said Jafar Farah, director of the Moussawa advocacy center for the Arab-Palestinian minority in Israel.
“We make peace with our enemies, not with our friends” by Yitzhak Rabin
“different angle will have different result” by arully 100505
“Harta halal yg dibelanjakan akan menambah berkah layaknya air mengalir menghidupi tanaman di sawah ladang yang dilaluinya” by arully 100430
“To help others, not only to live but to have a good life, is a supreme act of human generosity.” by Professor Peter Butler, head of the UK’s Facial Transplantation Research Team.
“As for us, we have long expected this and have done enough preparation” by Tadashi Yanai, the CEO of Fast Retailing
“Tidak ada manusia yg salah semua, dan juga tidak ada manusia yg bener semua, krn yg benar semua cuma Allah.. sementara manusia, cm bisa saling mengingatkan & menasehati untuk mendapatkan kebenaran” by arully 100222
“love is politic, just in different cloak” by arully 100203
“You know, it’s a lot harder to build a road in Afghanistan than put a man on the moon. That skill is not in abundance here” said Col. David B. Haight, commander of U.S. forces in Logar and neighboring Wardak province.
“I am not afraid of anything because God protects me. I came here for a religious reason, I am here to worship God” said Nigerian pilgrim Omar Issa as to why he chose not to get a swine flu vaccination.
“One key thing we can learn from China is setting goals, making plans and focusing on moving the country ahead as a nation. These guys have taken the old five-year plans and stood them on their head. Instead of deciding which factory gets which raw materials, which products are made, how they are priced and where they are sold, their planning now consists of ‘How do we build a world-class silicon-chip industry in five years? How do we become a global player in car-manufacturing?’” by James McGregor, a former chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in China talked about how China do things compare to US.
“What we have together is far greater than what divided us” by Hillary Clinton, talking about relation of US & Pakistan in October 2009.
“Goldman Sachs is clearly still a betting house” by Duff McDonald, author of Last Man Standing
“Luck is when preparation meets opportunity” by Seneca from USNews
“ever since i was born, Daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine, and i just wanted to say i love you so much” by Paris Michael Jackson
“This study is a global wake-up call“, by Ian Gilmore, president of the Royal College of Physicians, on a report that reveals that 1 in 10 European deaths is linked to alcohol
“This is the end of an era“, by George Soros, billionaire hedge fund manager, speaking on the global financial crisis
“If we don’t smile, we would be dead from crying” by Akhtar Jan, Pakistani mother of four, on life as a refugee after fleeing from violence between government forces and militants
“Never before in history has a large community like this been savaged by bombs and missiles and then been deprived of the means to repair itself” by Jimmy Carter, former U.S. President, on the destruction he saw during a visit to Gaza
“Obama has more czars than the Romanovs — who ruled Russia for 3 centuries. Romanovs 18, cyberczar makes 20″ by Senator John McCain through his twitter
“I’m a lot more worried about some sex offender walking my streets than a guy that’s a world-class terrorist” by Clint Carleton about plan to use Montana’s Hardin prison.
“the core of Social Science is relativity”, by rully (090527)
“technology is like a knife, it depends on how you use it”, by rully (090524)
Boys, be ambitious! by William S. Clark, was vice president of Sapporo Agricultural College (now: Hokkaido University)
Obama was setting “Mother Teresa standards in a city with very few saints.” by Darrell West, director of governance studies at the Brookings Institution.
“The pen, it seems, is no longer mightier than the sword, and it is certainly no match for a Kalashnikov” by Colin Freeman, Chief Foreign Correspondent of the Sunday Telegraph.
“All I hope is that unlike me, he can stick to writing the news, rather than being in it” by Colin Freeman, Chief Foreign Correspondent of the Sunday Telegraph.
“Jika tidak bisa sepenuhnya, jangan tinggalkan semuanya” by rully (090121)
“I call on you in the name of God… that we rise above our difference and defeat the expectations of our enemies and we take an honourable stand” by King Abdullah at Arab Summit in Kuwait, January 2009
“I am a scholar and I use words carefully, and this seems like a massacre”, by Sara Roy, a senior research scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University.
To govern is to choose by William Galston, a domestic policy assistant in President Bill Clinton’s administration.
“You can say anything you want, just don’t throw your shoes.” by Bill Morange, the authority’s security director, was standing beside the speaker’s podium and was one of the first to grab Mr. Millies. He said it appeared Mr. Millies was going to throw the shoe.
It’s the era of the Internet; what do you expect? by former Clinton White House senior adviser
“We don’t have to like China, but we need a way to deal with our neighbor” by Raymond Wu
“life is tasteless without bugs” by rully (081101)
“We found the weapons of mass destruction. They’re at Wash Mutual” by Anonymous
“There is no strong leader without a strong country” by Thomas L. Friedman
Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister said “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” (Big Lie)
“For too long, America has taken its many natural assets — its research universities, free markets and diversity of human talent — and assumed that they will always compensate for our low savings rate or absence of a health care system or any strategic plan to improve our competitiveness.” and “the best of the rest are running fast, working hard, saving well and thinking long term. They have adopted our lessons and are playing our game,” by Fareed Zakaria (editor of Newsweek International) in his book The Post-American World (quoted from NYTimes article)
”The United States of America should be run by somebody from the United States of America.” When reminded by the reporter capturing the footage that Obama is, in fact, American, the voter responded: “He’s Muslim.”
“It is impossible to stop me from working as a journalist under any circumstances … I would either have to die or lose my legs.” by Fadel Shana of Reuters, died April 16 2008 because of several 3 cm-long darts from flechettes which fired from an Israeli Tank. Video
