"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude." -Friedrich Nietzsche

"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world."
-Buddha

"Poetry is one of the destinies of speech. . . . One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language." by Gaston Bachelard

"Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them." by Charles Simic

"If Cambodia is to survive, she needs many voices." By Dith Pran

A KHMER

" It is easy to be a Cambodian but it is hard to be a Khmer.
A Khmer is highly cultured, gentle, kind , knowledgeable
in his tradition , and deeply religious.
He is a perfect gentleman in the western sense.
He was born from khmer parents from both sides, mother and father,
who were from generation to generation, faithful to the tradition
of their ancestors.
A Khmer is a tradition keeper.
To become a Khmer one has to devote his efforts to being in training
for his entire lifetime.
It has always been an honor to reach a status as a Khmer."
 
By KIMSAN DOEUR
E-Mail : kndoeur@flash.net
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Khmer Pride
 
"MODERN CAMBODIANS ARE PROUD OF THEIR CULTURE...
BUT PRIDE WITHOUT DEEP KNOWLEDGE OF THEIR OWN CULTURE AND ITS
DAILY PRACTICE HAS SHOWN THAT THE CAMBODIANS ARE NO MATCH FOR THEIR FORMIDABLE FOE..."
By KIMSAN DOEUR
E-Mail : kndoeur@flash.net
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" Only through the United Voice will the Khmer people dance in Harmony."

By Thavrith Bunkasem
E-Mail: Jpierre@gte.net
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Poetry


"Poetry is one of the destinies of speech. . . . One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language."


By Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962), French scientist, philosopher, literary theorist.

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Ideas

"Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls."
Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962), French scientist, philosopher, literary theorist.

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Critics

"All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens."
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), U.S. author.

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Communism

"Communists should be the first to be concerned about other people and country and the last to enjoy themselves."
Zhao Ziyang (b. 1919), Chinese party official.

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Books

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."
Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman.

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Culture

"Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land."
Mao Zedong (1893-1976), Founder of the People's Republic of China.

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Laws and the Law

"An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
Mohadmas K. Gandhi (1869-1948), Indian political and spiritual leader. Non-Violence in Peace and War, vol. 2, ch. 150 (1949)."

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