"Lange was hosting a reception at Vogel House for the Chinese politician Hu Yao Bang when the lights went out. Lange immediately asked all the guests to raise their hands because "many hands make light work." The audience complied, and to their amazement the lights immediately came back on. Lange was invited to visit China."

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Source : "Dominion", (p. 6), March 23, 1992.

David Lange

#Light Quotes #Hands Quotes #House Quotes

“Centuries ago it may have been difficult for pregnant women and their children to get proper nourishment, probably leading to smaller - and therefore shorter-lived - adults.”
“It was not Muslims that had made Islam great; it was Islam that had made the Muslims great.”

Source : Muhammad Asad (1954). “The Road To Mecca”, p.214, The Book Foundation
“I hope that Republicans in the House and Mr. Cantor will embrace that as part of immigration reform.”
“Several excuses are always less convincing than one.”
“Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.”
“It's possible to be a woman married to a very wealthy, powerful man but to be relatively disempowered. Not just relative to him, relative to a middle class woman who works.”
“There was something that was killing the people in the interior, in the forest area, of the country, and nobody quite knew what it was. That lasted a good three months before it was officially declared that it was Ebola virus. So it started off in Guinea and spread quite slowly, but then spread over the border into Sierra Leone and Liberia.”
“That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.”

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