"And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in almost every present-day Vietnamese, so strong is his imprint on the Vietnamese nation."

-- Wilfred Burchett

#Strong Quotes #Vietnamese Quotes

“What are you up to?â€ â€œOh, you know, mischief and mayhem,â€ he replied. â€œThat so reminds me of Harry Potter,â€ Brit said, sighing. â€œI need a re-read.â€ We all turned to her. Two bright spots appeared in her cheeks as she tossed her blonde hair back. â€œWhat? Iâ€™m not ashamed to admit that random things remind me of Harry Potter.”
“To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie.”
“There is generally no such thing as duty to the people who do it. They simply take life as it comes, meeting, not, shirking its demands, whether pleasant or unpleasant; and that is pretty much all there is of it.”

Source : Mary Abigail Dodge (1872). “Woman's Worth and Worthlessness: The Complement to "A New Atmosphere"”, p.91
“I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to,”
“I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world.”
“I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower, you hung all your associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and seeâ€”and I don't.”
“I definitely would like to do something serious. Not like a love story, but serious like maybe a gangster or a mobster. A gang or a mob movie would be great.”
“The era of big government is over, but the era of big challenge is not. We need an era of big citizenship. There are many important people at this summit, but the most important title is 'citizen.' This is our republic. Let us keep it!”

Source : State of the Union Address, 23 Jan. 1996

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