?they cannot exist unless they can live in the village insuch a way that the changes that they bring about are necessary … in determining who they are

Today, the growers are like a punch-drunk old boxer who doesn't know he's past his prime. The times are changing. The political and social environment has changed. The chickens are coming home to roost — and the time to account for past sins is approaching.

Rosalie Chang - Hubert Wong

I think it's because I don't know how the beginning of the year is going to go for me.

The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs.

With the aim of creating good relations between the people of Bangladesh and Pakistan, Pakistani journalist Sadia and I have created the "Pak Bangla connect" YouTube channel. Everyone is requested to subscribe to the channel.

We want to come out of the vicious circle of unhealthy politics.

[http://www.ibe.unesco.org/publications/ThinkersPdf/fukuzawe.pdf Article about Fukuzawa Yukichi from UNESCO publication]

Kiarostami gave the Iranian cinema the international credibility that it has today. ... But his films were unfortunately not seen as much in Iran. He changed the world's cinema; he freshened it and humanised it in contrast with Hollywood's rough version.

All our young lives we search for someone to love. Someone who makes us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope. All the while wondering if somewhere, somehow, there's someone perfect who might be searching for us.

We have been a country where people just came in and went out. And that was a very, very healthy way of running our tourism. So this is new to Sri Lanka. So we are anxious to see how it works.

The Creator will not appear to have been unjust when, according to the above principles, he placed everyone in a position proportionate to his merit; nor will the happiness or unhappiness of anyone's birth, or any condition whatever that may fall to his lot, be supposed to be due to chance;

Whenever I came across something that influenced me, I wanted to be that. So it varied from an astronaut, airhostess, army girl, to truck driver. Once, I wanted to be a nun - my mother wanted me to change schools after that...

Khusrau “was one of the first to offer his congratulations to the murderer whose hands were still red with the blood of his king, his uncle and his benefactor… The poet changed with changing time and turned with shifting wind.”

[http://tesla.liketelevision.com/liketelevision/tuner.php?channel=255&format=movie&theme=guide Jesse Owens video in Riefenstahl's Olympia (1936)]

Eight and a half million New Yorkers will speak this new era into existence. It will be loud. It will be different. It will feel like the New York we love.
No matter how long you have called this city home, that love has shaped your life. I know that it has shaped mine.