"I am very optimistic about the long run prospects for democracy in China. Chinese society is being dramatically and rapidly transformed. And thereâ€™s rising evidence that the new generation not only lacks faith in communism anymore, they think itâ€™s a joke. Theyâ€™re very cynical about their leadership and they want democratic change."

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Larry Diamond

#Running Quotes #Optimistic Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Ever notice how people wait until they're not going to see you anymore to say something nice to you?”
“The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.”

Source : Albert Low (1976). “Zen and creative management”, Anchor Books
“When we were filming, I thought that I was Peter Pan, you know? I thought I was the coolest kid in the world, so I wound up being the coolest kid in the world.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.”
“Never underestimate the enemy, above all if he is a stupid one and deserves to be killed.”
“The main issue [of the Scientific Revolution] is that the people in the industrialised countries are getting richer, and those in the non-industrialised countries are at best standing still: so the gap between the industrialised countries and the rest is widening every day. On the world scale this is the gap between the rich and the poor.”
“For those whose heart and whose attention is immersed in the truth, they don't need to have to worry.”
“All the higher forms of life have evolved from some one's ideal of justice, liberty or beauty; and the belief that nothing is too good to be true.”

Source : Alice Hegan Rice (2013). “My Pillow Book”, p.59, Read Books Ltd

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