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New Quotations from Chris Patten

By Christopher Patten, Andy Ho (Editor)

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| Paperback | 9789627420149

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"These constitutions inevitably guarantee the freedoms that many Asian leaders then try to justify restricting. So there are democratic Potemkin villages - like China with its parliament and its pledges about civil liberties - but there are real things too."

"It is not a sign of political Continue

"These constitutions inevitably guarantee the freedoms that many Asian leaders then try to justify restricting. So there are democratic Potemkin villages - like China with its parliament and its pledges about civil liberties - but there are real things too."

"It is not a sign of political apostasy to change one's clothes when the weather changes; the weather and the clothes may change, yet the body remains the same."

"Hubris is always followed by nemesis; pride regularly precedes a fall; what goes up just as surely comes down......Perhaps the greatest truth for all of us - and that includes Asian leaders - to grasp Asia is that the same laws of political and economic gravity apply to everyone, everywhere. The apples and the lychees descend perpendicularly on every continent."

- Chris Patten

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    You got to admire Chris Patten's English. Too bad none of the politicians now in Hong Kong can speak English ( or for that matter, Chinese) as good as he. Keep this book if you want to learn good English, or learn the wisdom behind this great man

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  • don't know why ..... lost all my interest of the book when I turned into page 2 .... Then I returned it to Library almost immediately.

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 174 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 962742014X
  • ISBN-13: 9789627420149
  • Publisher: Sub-Culture Ltd.
  • Pub date: Jul 01, 2006
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