"Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this."

-- Wen Jiabao

#Believe Quotes #Facts Quotes #Spirit Quotes

“People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive.”

Source : Sam Lipsyte (2013). “The Fun Parts: Stories”, p.51, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.”
“We tell stories. We tell stories to pass the time, to leave the world for a while, or go more deeply into it. We tell stories to heal the pain of living.”

Source : Niall Williams (2014). “History of the Rain: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014”, p.176, A&C Black
“It is usually the case that people who know you better than you know yourself think you're a pretty good person.”
“An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal. A walk for a walk's sake.”
“In every remodelling of the present, the existing condition of things must be supplanted by a new one. Now every variety of circumstances in which men find themselves, every object which surrounds them, communicates a definite form and impress to their internal nature. This form is not such that it can change and adapt itself to any other a man may choose to receive; and the end is foiled, while the power is destroyed, when we attempt to impose upon that which is already stamped in the soul a form which disagrees with it.”
“The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.”
“To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind.”

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