"「對的事情做，不對的事情不要做」Do the right thing, do things right"

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“「心存善念，盡力而為」就是在心中想著「台灣因為有我，可以變得更好」這樣就好。Be good at heart, and do your best”

“Some people do expect to continue exchanges with China.”

“Why would anyone choose self-immolation to take their own life? That is weird. Why self-immolation? I do not get it.”

“What matters most is exerting the positive influence of Taiwan and making Chinese people envy life on the island. This would be key to the survival of Taiwan.”

“Many people say ‘first be friends, then get married’. But if you cannot even reach the first stage, it is hard to tell what comes afterward.”

“I am willing to respect the 2020 Tokyo Olympics name rectification campaign , but I do not like being forced or to encounter people who want others to express their political ideas and do so with loud demands. Frankly speaking, I really dislike this kind of behavior.”

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"next imagines that, “in worshipping him who,” as he says, “was taken prisoner and put to death, we are acting like the Getæ who worship Zamolxis, and the Cilicians who worship Mopsus, and the Acarnani…"

— Origen

Religion

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"The new measures involve a lockdown on borders and wide powers to arrest people in the streets who are deemed a virus threat. It also includes new powers against "terrorism" and "subversion", giving i…"

— Neil Faulkner (archaeologist)

Politics1957–2022

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"Which American values can, even remotely, be called Islamic? Democracy? Freedom? Equality? Secularism? Gender equity? Freedom of thought? The right to free expression? The right to critique any holy c…"

— Varsha Bhosle

Literature1956–2012

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"The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate."

— Aristotle

Philosophy-384–-322

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