"Orville Schell and John Delury have delivered a brilliantly original and essential book: the road map to Chinaâ€™s quest for national salvation... Vivid, literate, and brimming with insights, Wealth and Power deserves to become a classic."

-- Evan Osnos

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“When your family is twice as weird as normal, you have to be twice as polite to authority, because authority hates weird.”

Source : Rosemary Clement-Moore (2011). “Texas Gothic”, p.60, Random House
“I believe that we all need to do charitable work. It should be taken seriously in the area of education, as someone from the industry.”
“When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.”
“I need to make mistakes, just to learn (who i am)”
“"Murphys law of economic policy": Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreed; they have the most influence on policy where they know the least and disagree most vehemently.”
“Love is not to be proven or measured...It exists, and that is enough.”
“There is nothing - no program, no hobby, no vice, no crime - that does not 'create jobs'. Tsunamis, computer viruses and shooting convenience store clerks all 'create jobs'. So that claim misses the plot; it applies to all so is an argument in favor of none. Instead of an argument on the merits, it is an admission that one has no such arguments.”
“I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.”

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