User:Adri K.

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I'm a Christian 'til the world ends

Football, greatest sport ever

Indonesia, my fatherland

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Not-so-wise words of me

 * "I am the main protagonist of my life story, and sometimes just an unimportant figure on others' life story, but never shall I become sidekick whether it's in my own life story or others'." Alfonso Rodriguez


 * "The difference between Islam and Christianity for me is in An-Nahl 126 and Matthew 5:44." Alexius Ben Zedrine


 * "People said: talk less and do more. I said: talk more and do much more. I love talking." Alfonso Rodriguez


 * "Leaders are not created; they are born." Alexius Ben Zedrine


 * "We don't need to learn how to fall in love; all we need to learn is how to live with it." Alfonso Rodriguez


 * "Love is unique; you keep giving it to others but you won't be lack of it, instead its amount will be increasing." Alfonso Rodriguez


 * "To put emphasis on an indisputable matter of its indisputability, will make it to be disputed instead." Alexius Ben Zedrine


 * "I’m unhappy with my life but I’m happy with my unhappiness, and that makes me happy with my life." Alfonso Rodriguez


 * "Do not live for justice, but use justice to live; because life itself is more important than justice." Alexius Ben Zedrine


 * "The things someone get is the best for him, the best for him is not always be the best for others, but everyone receives the best for himself." Alfonso Rodriguez


 * "One who had chances to decide the outcome but voluntarily did not follow the process have no rights to protest the aftermath." Alexius Ben Zedrine


 * "The true leaders aren't elected because they're great, instead of it they are great because they're elected." Alexius Ben Zedrine


 * ""What is the difference between enemy and opposition? Enemies work for different goals. Oppositions work towards same goal with different ways. In an election, enemy is the loser and opposition is the winner, because in a true democratical election there are no losers; all people are victors." Alexius Ben Zedrine


 * "Options are chosen to be done, not to be regretted." Alfonso Rodriguez


 * "At the early time of Indonesian independence, Indonesians said: Independence or Death! Since the independence of East Timor until now, I said to them: Independence THEN Death!" Alexius Ben Zedrine


 * "Any sentence begins with 'For me' is weak, as if the speaker diminishes the confidential value of truth in his sentence by saying that it is just his personal opinion." Alfonso Rodriguez


 * "Why is Bush so persistent to defend Georgia? He thinks that it is one of his states." Alexius Ben Zedrine


 * "You are one people, the world is not one people. Is it not better for you to understand the world, than for the world to understand you?" Alfonso Rodriguez


 * "We can have Maradonas, but there is only one Inzaghi." Alexius Ben Zedrine


 * "Aim high. When the world tells you to choose one of two, spit on the world's face and declare "Screw you, I'm capable enough to have both!"." Alfonso Rodriguez


 * "Stop saying "I'm not gonna change, this is the real me". The Almighty Designer does not intend you to be that asshole." Alfonso Rodriguez


 * "The faint-hearted seeks appreciaton for his works, but the strong one lets God be his only judge." Alfonso Rodriguez


 * "The palm oil trees are the modern derricks used by human nowadays to extract this earth's wealth." Alexius Ben Zedrine

Favorite quote

 * "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails." I Corinthians 13:4-8a (NIV).


 * "For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God." I Corinthians 1:18.


 * "Eenden zwemmen in den troepen, maar de adelaar vliegt alleen. (Ducks swim in groups but the eagle flies alone.)" Sukarno.


 * "Hanya satu tanah air yang dapat disebut Tanah Airku. Ia berkembang dengan usaha, dan usaha itu adalah usahaku. (Only one homeland that I can call my homeland; it flourishes with work, and that work is my work.)" Mohammad Hatta


 * "Chaque homme est coupable de tout le bien qu'il ne fait pas. (Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.)" Voltaire.


 * "Si tou timou tumou tou. (Human are human if they humanize other human / Human can be called human if they live to educate other human to be human.)” Motto of North Sulawesi Province, by Sam Ratulangi.


 * "In God we trust. All others must bring data.” Andi Hakim Nasution.


 * "Shinjitsu wa itsumo hitotsu! (真実はいつもひとつ! There is only one truth!)" Shinichi Kudo.


 * "Las verdades no son relativas. Lo relativo son las opiniones sobre la verdad. (Truths are not relative. What are relative are opinions about truth.)" Nicolás Gómez Dávila.


 * "Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again." Bob Marley.


 * "It is easier to die for your friends; the harder part is to find a friend that is worth to die for." Homer.


 * Lozh', povtorennaya tysyachu raz, stanovitsya pravdoy.". (Ложь, повторенная тысячу раз, становится правдой. Lie, repeated thousand times, becomes truth.)" Vladimir Lenin.


 * "There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear." Daniel Dennett.


 * "Videri quam esse. (To seem, rather than to be.)" Niccolò Machiavelli in The Prince.


 * "Lebih baik diasingkan daripada menyerah terhadap kemunafikan. (Better to be exiled than to surrender against hypocrisy.)" Soe Hok Gie.


 * "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly." Albert Einstein.


 * "No temáis una muerte gloriosa,¡que morir por la patria es vivir! (Do not fear a glorious death, because to die for the country is to live!)" Perucho Figueredo in La Bayamesa.


 * "If you wanna make God laugh, all you have to do is tell Him your plans." Clay Aiken in When You Say You Love Me, Measure of a Man.


 * "Surrender is completely defeat, compromise is half defeat, but escape is not defeat." Thirty-Six Stratagems Chapter 36.


 * "Pravda vítězí! (Truth prevails!)" former motto of Czech and Slovak Federal Republic.


 * "Fluctuat nec mergitur. (Tossed by the waves, but not sink.)" motto of Paris.


 * "Ey došman, ar to sang-e khârei man âhanam! (Oh enemy, if you are rock then I am steel!)" Hossein Gol-e-Golab in Ey Iran.


 * "Communism forgets that life is individual, capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis. It is found in a higher synthesis that combines the truths of both." Martin Luther King Jr.


 * "Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you." Khalil Gibran.


 * "¿Por qué no te callas? (Why don't you shut up?)" King Juan Carlos I of Spain to Hugo Chávez.


 * "A convert’s enthusiasm for his new religion is greater than a person who is born in it." Mahatma Gandhi.


 * "To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own." Abraham Lincoln.


 * "La mort n'est rien, mais vivre vaincu et sans gloire, c'est mourir tous les jours. (Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily)" Napoleon.


 * "Lord, protect my family and me. Forgive me my sins, and help me guard against pride and despair. Give me the wisdom to do what is right and just. And make me an instrument of your will." Barack Obama.


 * "ANAGRAM: President Megawati Soekarnoputri → A super-stupid, geek, irritant woman." Hendri Budi (modified by Alexius Ben Zedrine).


 * "No hay presos políticos, sino políticos presos. (There are no political prisoners, but [there are] imprisoned politicians.)" Joaquín Balaguer.


 * "''Because when a guy does something stupid once, well, that's because he's guy. But he does the same stupid thing twice, that's usually to impress some girl." The Lorax


 * "Harry, you're worse than Ron... Well, you're not." Hermione Granger.


 * "Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own winepress... Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block." Kahlil Gibran in Pity The Nation.


 * "Ningjiao wo fu tianxia ren, xiujiao tianxia ren fu wo.(寧教我負天下人，休教天下人負我. Better I wronged the world than the world wronged me)" Cao Cao.


 * "Pecunia: si uti scis, ancilla est; si nescis, domina. (Money: if you can use, it's your slave; if you can't, it's your master.)" Old Roman proverb at a tablet found in Verona.


 * "Serás lo que debas ser y si no, no seras nada. (You will be what you must be, or else you will be nothing.)" José de San Martín.


 * "Think of nature not as a gift from our ancestors; instead think of it as a loan from our descendants." quoted by Tjandra Setiadi, my teacher in university.


 * "He imprisons and tortures at Guantanamo. He imprisoned and tortured at Abu Ghraib. He has secret torture chambers in Europe. Yes, he imprisons even here in the United States, with his jails carrying more blacks than his universities can ever enroll. He even suspends the provisions of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights. Take Guantanamo for example; at that concentration camp international law does not apply. The national laws of the people there do not apply. Laws of the United States of America do not apply. Only Bush's law applies. Can the international community accept being lectured by this man on the provisions of the universal declaration of human rights? Definitely not!" Robert Mugabe about George W. Bush.