"I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot. I encouraged the Thailand|Thai to help the Khmer Rouge. The question was how to help the Cambodian people. Pol Pot was an abomination. We could never support him. But China could."

-- Zbigniew Brzezinski

#People Quotes #Support Quotes #Chinese Quotes

“In high school, I used to think it was like sooooo cool if a guy had an awesome car. Now none of that matters. These days I look for character and honesty and trust.”
“Leadership is an elusive concept, hard to describe and impossible to prescribe. It is more evident in its absence, so that when leadership is needed, its lack is sorely felt.”
“Rain is used as white noise when God is disgusted by too much prayer, when the sky is stuffed to bursting with the noise of what people need.”

Source : Ben Marcus (2007). “Notable American Women: A Novel”, p.55, Vintage
“When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.”
“The next way home's the farthest way about.”
“Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon them from birth through social conditioning. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins their journey of awakening. Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of following the crowd and by choosing knowledge over the veils of ignorance.”

Source : "On Intuition vs. Intellect" by Henri Bergson, 1907.
“It's funny, but... you're sort of a moving target for fortune, and you never know when it will befall you.”
“I come from a culture where you donâ€™t divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film,”

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