"My safety and my family's safety are not guaranteed even now."

-- Chen Guangcheng

#Safety Quotes #My Family Quotes

“I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.”
“The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.”
“It is a fact that unless children are brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, they, and the society which they constitute or control, will go to destruction. Consequently, when a state resolves that religious instruction shall be banished from the schools and other literary institutions, it virtually resolves on self-destruction.”

Source : Charles Hodge (1871). “Systematic Theology”, p.353
“If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.”

Source : Xunzi, John Knoblock (1988). “Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works”, p.153, Stanford University Press
“In recent times, more and more human thinking has come to assume that the idea of a universal natural law and the idea of 'God' are pointing to one and the same reality.”
“... the death of the spirit which threatens every man unless he is conscious of the danger and has a real purpose which can keep it alive and enable it to thrust its way through the choking weeds and thorns to the air and to the sun”
“The day is coming when, in 45 seconds, you can download a movie.”
“For something to be great, there has to be some kind of trial or some type of struggle that actually makes it special or valuable to you. Otherwise, anything could be easily taken for granted.”

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