"More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better."

-- Wen Jiabao

#World Quotes #May Quotes #Language Quotes

“Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.”
“Moving to 100 percent renewable energy means we no longer need and can no longer justify wars for oil.”

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“What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than they thought they were. The world is a slightly different place just because they read a damn book. Imagine that.”
“I couldn't think. The basics of my life seemed altered and thrown into question. After all, our families--our ancestors--are our identities. Biology is destiny. I'm not who you think I am, I had said to T.J. the last time I'd seen him. Maybe I wasn't who I'd thought I was either.”
“The more opposition there is, the better. Does a river acquire velocity unless there is resistance? The newer and better a thing is, the more opposition I will meet with at the outset. It is opposition which foretells success. Where there is no opposition there is no success either.”
“I'd Rather Be an Old Man's Sweetheart (Than a Young Man's Fool).”

Source : Song: I'd Rather Be An Old Man's Sweetheart
“To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things - and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect.”
“This is a massive world, I think, and in each centimeter of it, a different drama unfolds every second of the day. But we live on as if the next moment in our lives will be no different than the last. How foolish we all are.”

Source : Mahbod Seraji (2009). “Rooftops of Tehran: A Novel”, p.103, Penguin

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