"The dynamic character of China's nonstatist economic transformation, including its social openness to the rest of the world, is not mutually compatible in the long run with a relatively closed and bureaucratically rigid Communist dictatorship."

-- Zbigniew Brzezinski

#Running Quotes #Character Quotes #Long Quotes

“History is the chronicle of divorces between creed and deed.”
“The fast paced nature of our technologically-driven world seems to create issues that would appear to be foreign to ancient civilization.”
“Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.”
“I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you.”
“The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.”

Source : Horace Bushnell (1858). “Sermons for the new life”, p.259
“Google and others truncate headlines at 70 characters. On the Manti Teo story, Deadspin's scoop fell down the Google search results, overtaken by copycat stories with simpler headlines. Deadspin's headline was 118 characters. Vital information - 'hoax' - was one of the words that was cut off.”
“I had a choice. I could become an economist & managing director. I choose to do something else. I would have become much, much richer than I am. I choose to not do that. It's that simple.”

Source : Source: sturm-lie.be
“When you stay in your room and rage or sneer or shrug your shoulders, as I did for many years, the world and its problems are impossibly daunting. But when you go out and put yourself in real relation to real people, or even just real animals, thereâ€™s a very real danger that you might end up loving some of them. And who knows what might happen to you then?”

Source : FaceBook post by Jonathan Franzen from Apr 06, 2012

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