"I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one."

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Source : "Rights groups: prominent Chinese activist and wife beaten" by Jo Ling Kent and Jaime Florcruz, www.cnn.com. February 11, 2011.

Chen Guangcheng

#Jail Quotes #Bigger Quotes

“No matter who you are or what your life has been like so far, the rest of your life's journey can be different. With God's help you can begin again.”
“The world's becoming a museum of socialist failures.”

Source : John Dos Passos (1970). “The theme is freedom”
“Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.”
“Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.”
“Satan cannot deny but that great wonders have been wrought by prayer. As the spirit of prayer goes up, so his kingdom goes down. Satan's strategems against prayer are three. First, if he can, he will keep thee from prayer. If that be not feasible, secondly, he will strive to interrupt thee in prayer. And, thirdly, if that plot takes not, he will labour to hinder the success of thy prayer.”
“service is the joy-giving factor in daily life. It is as spontaneous as light, as subtle as electricity, as exhilarating as sunshine. It exists primarily as a spiritual attitude. It lies in the constant recognition of the brotherhood of humanity toward each and all with whom we come in contact.”

Source : Lilian Whiting (1896). “The World Beautiful”
“Some brewers of Ale and Beere doe put it into their drinke to make it more heady, fit to please drunkards, who thereby, according to their several dispositions, become either dead drunke, or foolish drunke, or madde drunke.”
“I'm just the biggest klutz. That's the problem. I don't get hurt doing cool things.”

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