"My fervent hope is that it would be possible for me and my family to leave for the U.S. on Hillary Clintonâ€™s plane,"

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Source : "Activist Chen Guangcheng: Let Me Leave China on Hillary Clinton’s Plane". Interview with Melinda Liu, www.thedailybeast.com. May 2, 2012.

Chen Guangcheng

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“That takes a lot of confidence to let your actors come up with something that could be theoretically funnier than what you had envisioned originally.”

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“The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.”
“Local and regional food systems are about opportunity.”
“Chuck Norris knows the last digit of PI.”
“We are ready to sacrifice our souls, our children and our families so as not to give up Iraq. We say this so no one will think that America is capable of breaking the will of the Iraqis with its weapons.”

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“You should give it to Max, Liesel. See if you can leave it on the bedside table, like all the other things." Liesel watched him as if he'd gone insane. "How, though?" Lightly, he tapped her skull with his knuckles. "Memorize it. Then write it down for him.”
“Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application, the more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest, which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.”
“I think we ought to decide that man-hating is not only respectable but honorable. To be a misandrist a woman needs considerable ingenuity, originality, and resilience. A misogynist requires no such resources.”

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