"Tibet has a very proud people but it's culturally gone and overrun ever since the Chinese took over. It's like saving the rhino. When a species is endangered, it's gone."

-- Paul Theroux

#Rhinos Quotes #People Quotes #Chinese Quotes

“Tis aye a solemn thing to me To look upon a babe that sleeps-- Wearing in its spirit-deeps The unrevealed mystery Of its Adam's taint and woe, Which, when they revealed lie, Will not let it slumber so.”
“I introduced the Transparency in Government Act, a multi-faceted transparency bill that would bring unprecedented access and accountability to the federal government.”

Source : "Paulson’s Actions Raise Serious Ethical Questions" by Mike Quigley, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2011.
“He sits beside the ranking Democrat Patrick Leahy who voted against Jeff Session`s nomination in that committee in 1986.”
“I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism.”
“The first one that I went to with my friends was with my buddy Michael - and we actually cut class to get tickets - was INXS at the Garden.”
“Failure to spend the [presentation] time wisely and well, failure to educate, entertain, elucidate, enlighten, and most important of all, failure to maintain attention and interest should be punishable by stoning. There is no excuse for tedium.”
“I paid my way through college as a carpenter and a woodworker. So I've built the house I live in and most of the furniture that's in it, and I do a lot of woodworking still.”
“I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records.”

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