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Asean is obviously a very important association for us. Over the past 30 years Asean has made great strides in regional cooperation covering a number of areas, although recently it has been under strain because of the financial crisis and other challenges.


Hassanal Bolkiah


#areas #asean #association #because #been

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.


Arthur Erickson


#constraints #euphoric #everything #freedom #gone

The anchors now made are contrived so as to sink into the ground as soon as they reach it, and to hold a great strain before they can be loosened or dislodged from their station.


William Falconer


#before #contrived #great #great strain #ground

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.


R. Buckminster Fuller


#bring #circle #clients #dome #ease

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.


Edmund Burke


#folly #greatest #liberty #madness #possible

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.


John Updike


#after #breath #constraints #develop #first

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.


John Updike


#children #decided #education #equipped #fathers

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.


Chanakya


#accomplish #due #his #knowledge #like

The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.


John Cornyn


#both #distinguish #distorts #does #draw

There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.


Ken Follett


#american #among #before #communist #communists






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