"Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did. I have no illusions on this score, nor do I believe that any Asian nation or African nation, in the same state of dominance, and with the same system of colonial profit-amassing and plunder, would have behaved otherwise."

-- Han Suyin

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“I think you have to relax about aging. What else can you do?”
“There is something in the spirit of song...that fires the soul in a way that it can't otherwise be touched or fired.”
“The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work.”
“In China, the state controls the corporations, whereas in the United States, the corporations control the state.”

Source : "Dambisa Moyo's 6 Favorite Books". theweek.com. March 04, 2011.
“I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.”

Source : Letter to Sir William Spring, September 1643, in Thomas Carlyle 'Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches' (2nd ed., 1846)
“We no longer build fireplaces for physical warmthÂ—we build them for the warmth of the soul; we build them to dream by, to hope by, to home by.”
“As a boy, when I was bad, my mother would chew me out in Spanish. And since I was bad a lot, I learned a lot of Spanish!”
“People said women couldn't swim the Channel, but I proved they could.”

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