"At the same time, we are keenly aware that China is still the largest developing country in the world and we need to make long and hard efforts if we are to build a moderately prosperous society in all respects and basically achieve modernization."

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Source : The Wall Street Journal Interview, www.wsj.com. January 18, 2011.

Hu Jintao

#Country Quotes #Long Quotes #Effort Quotes

“The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost.”
“I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.”
“Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.”
“There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high level with extremely valuable material, motifs, and melodies.”
“I always wanted to be an astronaut.”
“I didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as art.”
“What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.”

Source : Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.340
“But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!”

Source : 1899 The Awakening, ch.6.

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