"The overall strength of Chinese culture and its international influence is not commensurate with China's international status. The international culture of the West is strong while we are weak."

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Source : "China's President Lashes Out at Western Culture" by Edward Wong, www.nytimes.com. January 3, 2012.

Hu Jintao

#Strong Quotes #Chinese Quotes #Culture Quotes

“So the ethic I was taught in school resulted in the path I chose in my life following school.”
“... life is a solitude ...”
“My real name is Amethyst. It sounds like a stage name. My mom is kind of crazy.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It's no wonder we don't defend the land where we live. We don't live here. We live in television programs and movies and books and with celebrities and in heaven and by rules and laws and abstractions created by people far away and we live anywhere and everywhere except in our particular bodies on this particular land at this particular moment in these particular circumstances.”

Source : Derrick Jensen (2011). “Endgame, Volume 2: Resistance”, p.242, Seven Stories Press
“It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness.”
“Planners and designers should encourage as much diversity in human habitats as they find in animal habitats. It is not possible to resolve all conflicts or to gain all ends. Choices have to be made. Different aspects of the public good should be stressed in different places. To achieve variety in land use patterns, there should also be a variety of relationships between the professions, not an institutionalized decision-making tree. Relationships between the constructive professions should, therefore, be deconstructed.”
“For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful antidote. Yes, environmental problems do constrain human societies, but the societies' responses also make a difference.”
“Short films don't go too far.”

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