"The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism."

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Source : "Buy Shanghai!" by Patricia Marx, www.newyorker.com. July 21, 2008.

Patricia Marx

#Chinese Quotes #Capitalism Quotes

“Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work.”
“You can't stop change any more than you can stop the suns from setting.”

Source : "Fictional character: Shmi Skywalker". "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace", www.imdb.com. 1999.
“Up and down the the still sparsely settled coast of British North America, groups of men-intellectuals and farmers, scholars and merchants, the learned and the ignorant-gathered for the purpose of constructing enlightened governments.”

Source : Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.231, Harvard University Press
“Women don't have to listen to their inner-critic and hold themselves back; they can unleash themselves and reach their best potential if they put their effort into it. That's what I want my daughter to do.”
“I don't have any problem with Mao or Stalin or the Vietnamese leaders or certainly Fidel locking up people they see as dangerous. Because so often, dissidence has been used by the greater powers to undermine a people's revolution.”
“The most important thing we ever have to learn in life is to live with our choices.”

Source : Ann Rinaldi (2002). “Amelia's War”, p.259, Scholastic Inc.
“The purpose of life is not to maintain personal comfort; it's to grow the soul.”
“I'm always fascinated by the use of the first-person plural talking about sports.”

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