#si

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#also #effects #hazards #increase #our

To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#because #broke #economy #entire #industrial

I'm just not very good at glamour... It doesn't come easily to me. ↗

— Elize Du Toit

#easily #glamour #good #i #just

I have always had a dream to take part in an Olympic Games, and losing my leg didn't change anything. ↗

— Natalie du Toit

#anything #change #dream #games #had

Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#attitudes #china #circumstances #desires #despite

In dealing with the China problem, the British and American side, which had particularly strong interests in China, should have based its judgments about the origins of the problem on direct observation of the actual circumstances at the time. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#actual #american #based #british #china

Nevertheless, China was unfortunately unable to understand Japan's real position, and it is greatly to be regretted that the Sino-Japanese War became one of long duration. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#china #duration #greatly #japan #long

The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanese residents in China, and the illegal violation of Japanese rights. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#china #exclusion #goods #illegal #incident

Throughout that period, Japan had made honest efforts to keep the destruction of war from spreading and, based on the belief that all nations of the world should find their places, had followed a policy designed to restore an expeditious peace between Japan and China. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#based #belief #between #china #designed

I will be the president of the nation who keeps pledges. ↗

— Park Geun-hye

#keeps #nation #pledges #president #who