"I think you have a deeply anxious leadership in China that knows its legitimacy is drifting away, thatâ€™s sending its [personal] money and its children abroad because they have no faith in the future of their own regime."

-- Larry Diamond

#Children Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Legitimacy Quotes

“We are born into a world in which sexual possibilities are narrowly circumscribed. . . . We are programmed by the culture as surely as rats are programmed to make the arduous way through the scientist's maze, and that programming operates on every level of choice and action.”
“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
“Thus, a vision of the whole gradually grew for me that was nourished by the various experiences and realizations I had encountered along my theological path. I rejoiced to be able to say something of my own, something new and yet completely within the faith of the Church. The feeling of aquiring a theological vision that was ever more clearly my own was the most wonderful experience of those years.”
“The most difficult secret for a man to keep is the opinion he has of himself.”
“How can you be any purer than pure if your name is Carter? How can you get away from being a Carter? There's a part of you that's gonna come through. How do you keep from doing it? It's what you're born to do.”
“Every child dances, and then you learn not to.”

Source : "Portrait of the artist: Mark Morris, choreographer". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2009.
“A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.”
“It's sometimes difficult living in France. People are more open minded in England, and of course I'm missing England in terms of football and the passion that the fans show, they're really passionate.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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