
“We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.”
Source: The Light That Failed
Source: Fruits Basket Ultimate Edition, Vol. 3
“We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.”
Source: The Light That Failed
Source: Better-World Philosophy: A Sociological Synthesis (1899), The Social Ideal, pp. 146–147
“We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.”
Variant: Don’t be upset. The world is full of surprises. We’re all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we’re seldom formally introduced.
Source: Spin (2005), p. 438
Auch wenn zwei Staaten in Deutschland existieren, sind sie doch füreinander nicht Ausland; ihre Beziehungen zueinander können nur von besonderer Art sein.
government policy statement on 28 October 1969, p. 2, bwbs.de http://www.bwbs.de/UserFiles/File/PDF/Regierungserklaerung691028.pdf (PDF file).
Video interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lytxafTXg6c dated 1963
Source: The "Wind on Fire" Trilogy (2000-2003), Firesong (Book 3), p. 274
Ma Ying-jeou (2013) cited in: " Ma defends cross-strait offices proposal http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2013/04/24/2003560582" in The Taipei Times, 24 April 2013.
Statement made in interview with Chinese-language United Evening News in response to the establishment of reciprocal representative office between Taiwan and Mainland China, in which Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation office will be established in Mainland China, while Mainland China's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits office will be established in Taiwan, 23 April 2013.
Strait issues