Word: regretting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know that Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Tse-tung both say there is only one China. We are not in the position to contest that; we must follow what they say." Reminded that he once expressed his debt to Chiang for approaching postwar Japan "with a spirit of regret and not of revenge," Sato replied, "My esteem for Chiang still has some influence on my personal feelings. But one must distinguish between personal feelings and official views. Whatever my personal feelings to ward Chiang, it does not mean I support independence for Taiwan. But I don't think this...
...have done well in following a policy of peace. All this, however-our economic growth, the return of Okinawa and the Bonin Islands-we owe to our good relations with the U.S. With the Soviets, we have to have arguments even over such things as salmon fishing. My greatest regret is that our opposition has never understood this...
Terry's only regret in leaving Phoenix was in having to leave behind his Custom Street Machine. "She was beautiful. A maroon falcon sprint jacked up in the back, with meats, and a 427 cu. in. hemi-under-glass mounted in the ashtray...
...irony is that as absolutes, Reason and Unreason commit the same mistake. The ideology of Reason was an attempt to escape human complexity by rising above it. The ideology of madness is an attempt to escape by plunging beneath it. Impulse to action-no hesitation in between, no regret afterward-is the romantic dream of those who envy animals and madmen. But man thinks almost as naturally as he feels. Would-be animal, would-be madman, he is doomed to exceed himself simply because he can think about exceeding himself...
...points for regret...