"Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future."

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Source : "Literary witness to century of turmoil". "China Daily", November 24, 2003.

Ba Jin

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“Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance.”
“In terms of hardline right-wing people on television, there's some people that make me cringe when I change the channel.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.”
“Tenderness is a virtue.”

Source : "The Good-Natur'd Man". Play by Oliver Goldsmith, 1768.
“One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit.”

Source : "How Republicans can become 'compassionate conservatives' again" by Gary Bauer, www.foxnews.com. March 25, 2013.
“Fictional characters exist in only two places, neither of which is on the printed page. They exist, first, in the mind of the writer and, second, in the mind of the reader.”
“Innovation must lead infrastructure for a simple but compelling reason: Innovation produces new types of products and markets, and it is virtually impossible to know how to run those markets efficiently before they are created.”
“The delivery of medical care is to do as much nothing as possible.”

Source : Samuel Shem (2010). “The House of God”, p.311, Penguin

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