"If some Western politician claims he is in a position to use the normal Western methods to feed and clothe 1.2 billion Chinese, we would be happily prepared to elect him president of China."

-- Li Peng

#Chinese Quotes #President Quotes #Normal Quotes

“The obsession was so real and so prolonged. Sleeping was kind of like taking breaks from continuing the obsession.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“No society can sustain unlimited growth - none ever has. History demonstrates that expectations of infinite growth lead to collapse. Unfortunately, millennia of evidence also indicates that needed attempts to stabilize such societies run counter to the expectations of the populace and of interest groups. For that reason, such attempts at stabilization frequently fail.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.”
“I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.”
“The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death.”

Source : National Summit on Terrorism, August 05, 2005.
“You're the queen, and it's the queen's house, and whatever Brigan may accomplish, he's highly unlikely ever to be queen.”
“Never follow the crowd. Go where it's empty.”

Source : Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “Total Recall”, p.766, Simon and Schuster
“One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.”

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