"Chinese don't really believe in markets. They like stability, they like control."

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David Wessel

#Believe Quotes #Chinese Quotes #Stability Quotes

“I think that what we put on our skin and what we eat, you just cannot compromise. You cannot keep on putting things that are toxic and that are going to compromise your health on your skin. Your skin absorbs. It's the same as eating. Over 60 percent is absorbed directly into your blood stream. So to me paying that little bit extra is absolutely worth it. It's health insurance.”
“When I think about my own work, there usually is one or the other light bulb moment where there is this flash of insight. Where do these ideas come from? Supernatural? Enigmatic? Divine? You can take that any way you like. I think the human mind does a lot of things that we could call somehow divine.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“New York is a much younger city that drives culture. In Paris, older women drive the culture - really drive culture.”
“Success in God's eyes is faithfulness to His calling.”
“As if a device can function if it has no style. As if a device can be called stylish that does not function superbly... yes, beauty matters. Boy, does it matter. It is not surface, it is not an extra, it is the thing itself.”
“Deep in the soul, below pain, below all the distraction of life, is a silence vast and grand - an infinite ocean of calm, which nothing can disturb; Nature's own exceeding peace, which "passes understanding". That which we seek with passionate longing, here and there, upward and outward; we find at last within ourselves.”

Source : Richard Maurice Bucke (2012). “Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind”, p.329, Courier Corporation
“Taj [ Johnson] is the singer in my family. So whenever I would be practicing my warmups in the house, she would let me have it. I could be on the other side of the house doing my voice lessons and she would scream, "Drop your jaw for those long notes."”

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“Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.”

Source : Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.131, Macmillan

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