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DAWN of A NEW CENTURYTime for a new beginning... July 08 Best Quotes about Freedom
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.--Soren Kierkegaard Freedom is just chaos, with better lighting.--Alan Dean Foster It is by the goodness of God that our country have those unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.--Mark Twain You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.--Malcolm X The basis of a democratic state is liberty.--Aritotle Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.--Robert Louis Stevenson I would rather to be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. --Thomas Jefferson My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.--Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. July 03 HP大中华区总裁孙振耀退休感言 以下文章乃转载
如果这篇文章没有分享给你那是我的错！ June 04 A Politician Dies and Goes to HeavenA politician dies and goes to heaven. Because he’s the first of his kind to reach the pearly gates, St. Peter The politician says o.k., and decides to spend the first day in hell. His day in heaven is pretty good too – so much fun that he again loses The politician tells St. Peter, “You may think i’m crazy, but i had more St. Peter says, “OK, fine by me, it’s your choice,” and the politician But when the elevator doors open, it’s nothing but agony and misery, Satan smiles down at him and says, “Well, yesterday was the campaign, http://www.lol.com/joke/show/21 "Remember, remember, the fifth of November." A politician slipped into heaven while St.Peter was napping cuz even hell doesn't want him. Christians have the gospels; Jews have the Hebrew moral laws; Americans have the Declaration of Independence; what do we have except the endless sea of silence and the bankruptcy of democracy and morality? It is like looking down at the godless Babylonians. Weather: A little bit raining Mood: Not bad and just made a phone call back home after enjoying the best episode of Family Guy in Theatre class: The King is Dead which is freakin hilarious strongly recommended xD Peace God bless you all June 01 Life on Mars?Is society a ridiculous joke where people act like cavemen or is it like a movie show repeating too many times and never ends? I haven't figured out the true meaning behind this song yet but the enigmatic verse reminds me of the famous quote said by Shakespeare that "All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players". It is a great song endowed with relaxative rhythm and its ideas extended in the verses reflect in-depth analysis of society in the late 1970's. They used this in the trailer of Factory Girl, amazing! At the time this song was created, there had been revolutions among various groups including the musicians among whom arose the legendary John Lennon. Yesterday I just watched the brief introduction of the film Across the Universe which is about the life and music of Lennon during the time of wars and dramatic social changes.
Life on Mars
David Bowie
It's a God awful small affair To the girl with the mousey hair But her mummy is yelling, "No!" And her daddy has told her to go But her friend is no where to be seen Now she walks through her sunken dream To the seat with the clearest view And she's hooked to the silver screen But the film is a sadd'ning bore For she's lived it ten times or more She could spit in the eyes of fools As they ask her to focus on Sailors Fighting in the dance hall Oh man! Look at those cavemen go It's the freakiest show Take a look at the lawman Beating up the wrong guy Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know He's in the best selling show Is there life on Mars? It's on America's tortured brow That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow Now the workers have struck for fame 'Cause Lennon's on sale again See the mice in their million hordes From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads Rule Britannia is out of bounds To my mother, my dog, and clowns But the film is a sadd'ning bore 'Cause I wrote it ten times or more It's about to be writ again As I ask you to focus on Sailors Fighting in the dance hall Oh man! Look at those cavemen go It's the freakiest show Take a look at the lawman Beating up the wrong guy Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know He's in the best selling show Is there life on Mars? May 26 Memorial DayHave I posted this before? I don't quite remember...today is Memorial Day, a day in memory of peace and freedom. On this day Americans have an interesting tradition of making hot dogs for barbecue which I love very much=). It's said to be a day to remember those who had fought, suffered and died for the peace, freedom and democracy owned by the future generations. May 3rd is World Press Freedom Day and it is true that freedom is still precious for the people living in developing countries and should not be taken granted as there are still many people from distinct countries and nations willing to lay their lives on the line for freedoms in their plights where truths are still subject to propaganda. It shall be a day remembering those fighting for rights as humanbeings. Those veterans give us, global citizens, chances to understand what to uphold, what to improve and what to be embodied in our minds that there are things like freedom that is worth fighting for. Memorial Day goes so fast but memories shall sustain. To the soldiers who died one hundred and fifty years ago on the battlefield, we are saying thank you. Salute!
Hands Held High
LP Turn my mike up louder I got to say something Light weights step to the side when we come in Feel it in your chest the syllables get pumping People on the street they panic and start running Words on loose leaf sheet complete coming I jump in my mind and summon the rhyme, I'm dumping Healing the blind I promise to let the sun in Sick of the dark ways we march to the drum and Jump when they tell us that they wanna see jumping Fuck that I wanna see some fists pumping Risk something, take back what's yours Say something that you know they might attack you for Cause I'm sick of being treated like I have before Like it's stupid standing for what I'm standing for Like this war's really just a different brand of war Like it doesn't cater the rich and abandon poor Like they understand you in the back of the jet When you can't put gas in your tank These fuckers are laughing their way to the bank and cashing the cheque Asking you to have compassion and have some respect For a leader so nervous in an obvious way Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay And the rest of the world watching at the end of the day In their living room laughing like "what did he say?" [Chorus:] Amen Amen Amen Amen Amen In my living room watching but I am not laughing Cause when it gets tense I know what might happen World is cold the bold men take action Have to react or get blown into fractions Ten years old it's something to see Another kid my age drugged under a jeep Taken and bound and found later under a tree I wonder if he had thought the next one could be me Do you see the soldiers they're out today They brush the dust from bullet proof vests away It's ironic at times like this you pray But a bomb blew the mosque up yesterday There's bombs in the buses, bikes, roads Inside your market, your shops, your clothes My dad he's got a lot of fear I know But enough pride inside not to let that show My brother had a book he would hold with pride A little red cover with a broken spine On the back, he hand-wrote a quote inside When the rich wage war it's the poor who die Meanwhile, the leader just talks away Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay And the rest of the world watching at the end of the day both scared and angry like "what did he say?" With hands held high into the sky so blue, As the ocean opens up to swallow you.  May 24 Memorabel Quotes about the TudorsThe history of the Tudors always gives me chills.
Anne Boleyn's:
-Your daughter will be made at the throne.
-But the king can change his mind!He can do whatever he wants now; he's absolute power you know that. And what he has given he can take away! What taken away he can give back! He could still make Mary Queen even above my daughter! I don't know I just fear it.
I am the king's wife. I know how I got there. It was not all you. It was not you or Norfolk, or George or any other man you want to name. It was also me. He fell in love with me, he respected me.....and my opinions.
Yes, I heard the executioner was very good...
[pauses and smiles] And in any case, I have only a little neck. [Breaks into laughter]. I love you Elizabeth, I love you with all my heart and I bid you never forget it 'Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die, but I pray God save the king and send him long to reign over you, for a gentler nor a more merciful prince was there never: and to me he was ever a good, a gentle and sovereign lord. And if any person will meddle of my cause, I require them to judge the best. And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me. O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul.' --Anne's last words before her execution
Don’t be an eagle, they soar too high. Be a pidgeon. They shit on everything.
(Henry to Thomas More) An important question, whether it is better for a king to be feared or loved. King Henry VIII: And don't you know that I could drag you down as quickly as I raised you.
You think you know a story, but you only know how it ends. To get to the heart of the story, you have to go back to the beginning. Elizabeth: http://www.elizabethi.org/us/quotes/Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.
Was I not born in this realm? Were my parents born in any foreign country? Is there any cause I should alienate myself from being careful over this country? Is not my kingdom here? We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world. My Lords, do whatever you wish. As for me, I shall do no otherwise than pleases me. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. It is monstrous that the feet should direct the head. All my possessions for a moment of time Golden Speech 1601: To be a King and wear a crown is a thing more pleasant to them that see it, than it is pleasant to them that bear it. I were content to hear matters argued and debated pro and contra as all princes must that will understand what is right, yet I look ever as it were upon a plain tablet wherein is written neither partility or prejudice. There is no jewel, be it of never so rich a price, which I set before this jewel; I mean your love. Though God hath raised me high, yet this I account the glory of my reign, that I have reigned with your loves. I have ever used to set the last Judgement Day before mine eyes, and so to rule as I shall be judged to answer before a higher judge. You may have many a wiser prince sitting in this seat, but you never have had, or shall have, any who loves you better. It is not my desire to live or to reign longer than my life and reign shall be for your good. May 19 Linkin Park latest single: New DivideNew Divide
on the day it has been first released =) Transformers 2! Geez I am extremely excited feeling my hands shaking too badly to hold my beaf&blackbeans burritto and soda as if I am doing the marketing job.
 I remembered black skies / The lightning all around me
I remembered each flash / As time began to blur Like a startling sign / That fate had finally found me And your voice was all I heard / That I get what I deserve So give me reason To prove me wrong To wash this memory clean Let the thoughts cross The distance in your eyes Give me reason To fill this hole Connect the space between Let it fill up to reach the truth and lies Across this new divide There was nothing inside / The memories left abandoned There was nowhere to hide / The ashes fell like snow And the ground caved in / Between where we were standing And your voice was all I heard / That I get what I deserve So give me reason To prove me wrong To wash this memory clean Let the thoughts cross The distance in your eyes Across this new divide And every loss and every lie And every truth that you deny And each regret and each goodbye Was a mistake too great to hide And your voice was all I heard But I get what I deserve So give me reason To prove me wrong To wash this memory clean Let the thoughts cross The distance in your eyes Give me reason To fill this hole Connect the space between Let it fill up to reach the truth and lies Across this new divide Across this new divide Across this new divide May 18 Angels&Demons Movie ReviewThe movie is wonderful, especially the part of the helicopter and the moment of the hoooly explosion: the moment of creation.
Actually the moment of creation looks like a gorgeous supernova. I felt like seeing the eternity in the cinema!
some quotes from the Internet:
Robert Langdon: I need access to the Vatican Archives. Richter: Access to the Archives is only by written decree by the Holy Father. Robert Langdon: Fellas, you called me. Richter: You said they'd be killed publicly. Robert Langdon: Yes, revenge. For La Purga. Richter: La Purga? Langdon: Oh geez, you guys don't even read your own history do you?(Lol) 1668, the church kidnapped four Illuminati scientists and branded each one of them on the chest with the symbol of the cross. To 'purge' them of their sins and they executed them, threw their bodies in the street as a warning to others to stop questioning church ruling on scientific matters. They radicalized them. The Purga created a darker, more violent Illuminati, one bent on... on retribution. Robert Langdon: The Illuminati did not become violent until the 17th Century. Their name means 'The Enlightened Ones'. They were physicists, mathematicians, astronomers. In the 1500's they started meeting in secret, because they were concerned about the church's inaccurate teachings. They were dedicated to scientific truth. And the Vatican didn't like that. So the church began to, how did you say it? Oh, hunt them down and kill them. ...any many more marvellous words and moments from the book as well as its orchestral music...
It is never appropriate or rational to conduct one's faith in an extreme way otherwise he may go crazy and have to pay the price when the line between blindness or fetishism and belief has been blurred.This guy is upset after his brilliant helicopter show when his plan was unveiled. He burned himself to death asking for forgiveness after surviving the explosion or "God's miracle" called by the others, thus reflecting a tragic mood of satire. He is like a child lost in his illusion of fanatic love as if he has been taken advantage of and manipulated by an invisible power which could be the Catholic church, the evil of abusing the rights as means of distorting the truths to fulfill his personal desire in the name of God with no sane excuse whatsoever. All these elements combined with faith, passion and hatred makes him pathetic and somehow innocent...alas.This character's fate made me feel really sorry and sad for him so the actor did a great job. May 13 What made my head explode in today's ART EDUC classThe P-Funk Cosmology-in-a-Nutshell: (Funk: a music form in 1970's which is also the last name of the professor:D)
Dig: The secret of funk was placed inside the pyramids 5,000 years ago. If we had stayed tuned (To pyramid power? Connect this to the Chariots of the Gods melieu of the same era, and the visiting spacemen theme of P-Funk) to The One, we wouldn't be in the mess we're in. "Mother earth is pregnant for the third time. We all have knocked her up." It took the arrival of Dr. Funkenstein to unearth the funk and usher its viral spread over the de-funkatized surface of the planet. The problem with earth is that it is devoid of funk, -- earth is the "Unfunky UFO" -- due to the unfunky operations of the white house, the pentagon, Nixon, businessmen and greed in general, and an overall lack of supergroovalisticprosifunkstica-tion.(!) The symbol for the collective greed/war mentality is embodied by Sir Nose, D'Void of Funk ("I have always been D'Void of Funk, I shall continue to be D'Void of Funk..."), who relentlessly pimpifies the people "By sucking their brains until their ability to think was amputated...pimpifying their instincts until they were fat, horny, and strung out" in pursuit of "financial security or an eternal supply of TRIM," the result being that "the very source of life energies on earth have become the castrated target of anile bamboozelry from homo sapiens' rabid attempts to manipulate the omnipotent forces of nature."The ruthless whoring of Funkentelechy has brought mother nature to her knees, and we're pinned beneath them. "The frenzied incipience of pimpification hath risen to the point of cosmicide." In other words, we all have a bad case of the Placebo Syndrome, having traded in "the real thing" for a civilization comprised of cheap imitations, which is now crumbling around us. The Placebo Syndrome has given the body politic weak knees, which are doomed to give out from under us at any moment. We no longer feel the pulse, or smell the deep draughts of the Cosmic Slop which generates the funk. "When the signal is too weak, you're in the syndrome." But hark! We do have booties and we do have boots, so let's move 'em! "When the syndrome is around, don't let your guard down. All you got to do is go on a bump." We have the strategic assistance of Star Child, who takes careful aim and shoots at Sir Nose (who inhabits the Nose Zone, or the Zone of Zero Funkativity) with his Bop Gun, funkatizing him in the luminescent sheen of its rays. In concert, guitarist Gary Shider flew over the crowd, wearing diapers of course, blasting at the crowd with a strobe light attached to a space-age rifle, "Chasing the Noses away," which forces Sir Nose to "give up the funk" and dance. "We shall overcome...we got to shoot 'em with the Bop Gun." To gather the collective energies of the funkateers into a mobilized force, Uncle Jam's Army was created to snuff out Sir Nose wherever he may lie. ...So, anyhow, the class is funny. May 09 MiracleAbove&Beyond Presents Oceanlab
Miracle Don't they know that there's something going on What they're harming with their indecision And who will be left standing when I'm gone? There'll be nothing left but a vision And it's too easy To turn a blind eye to the light And it's too easy To bow your head and pray But there are sometimes When you should try to find your voice And this is one voice that you must find today Are you hoping for a miracle As the ice caps melt away No use hoping for a miracle There's a price we'll have to pay And it's too easy To turn a blind eye to the light And it's too easy To bow your head and pray But there are sometimes When you should try to find your voice And this is one voice that you must find today Are you hoping for a miracle As the ice caps melt away No use hoping for a miracle There's a price we'll have to pay
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