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MR ANDREW WONG:
Sir, I said earlier during the second reading
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formulation being aded by Mr. P.K. Yeung amendment or Mr. Martin Lee amendment. I therefore take strong
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8 reply that to some a half-empty bottle is to some others
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a half-full bottle. My rejoinder there, and forgive my
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half-full brain will choose to describe a half-broken
12 marriage to be a marriage half intact and pretend to live
in nuptial bliss.
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Sir, as I explained, I have the strong
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no objections to the amendment agreed to between the 17 Administration and the Ad Hoc Group which is now moved 18 by the Convenor of the Group, Mr. Yeung Po-kwan. In fact
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20 27th, a Guinness record I would imagine, that I would support it instead of Mr. Martin Lee's amendment. However, after
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than the Group's amendment. I,of course, owe Honourable kin. 26 Members of this Council who are also Members of the Ad Hoc 27 Group, an apology and also an explanation, and I do hope 28 that I will be forgiven and forgotten, but in the latter 29 regard, this might be wishful thinking, if not for Members' 30 magnanimity.
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Sir, let me not only explain myself but also take 33 this opportunity to persuade my Honourable friends that both 34 amendments fall short of my desired formulation which you 35 will recall I have termed 'the negative approach', and in 36 the formulation appended to my speech without any specific
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