Andrew To
Andrew To
Andrew Tois a member of the Wong Tai Sin District Council, Hong Kong. Of Hakka ancestry, he is the former chairman of League of Social Democrats from 2010 to 2011, succeeding Wong Yuk-man. His wife, Jackie Hung, was a leader of Civil Human Rights Front and Justice and Peace Commission of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese...
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I would argue that television and particularly the BBC were instrumental in puffing up the Royal Family to a level where they were inflated out of all, all proportion to their relevance on the national scene.
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For a time during the 1980s the Royal Family were not just the most influential family in Britain but probably in Europe and Prince Charles specifically was very much like a defacto Cabinet member and what he said actually had impact on public policy.
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Stories about Diana's fashions, about possible rows between Charles and Diana, these were meat and drink.
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They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished.
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Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you but my friends never leave me.
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It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.
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Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.
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What's taking place during stress is actually much simpler than a transaction between stressful life events and you. There aren't two parties involved in stress. There is only one - your own mind.
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I look at being a capitalist businessperson like riding a bike - if I go too slowly, I'll fall over. Or it's kind of like a shark: if I stop swimming, I'll just die.
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One of the things I realized... is how few success stories there are in websites or products or businesses that exist primarily for an altruistic purpose.
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The experience is fundamentally different for buying from local businesses than it is for buying consumer goods.
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We have to treat smoking as a major public health issue. We have to reduce the extent to which young people start smoking, and one of the issues is the extent to which display of cigarettes and brands does draw young people into smoking in the first place.
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We will empower patients as well as health professionals. We will disempower the hierarchy and bureaucracy.
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Crime takes the pulse of a culture. It tells us the truth about us as a species.