"Like other countries in the world, China must uphold its own sovereignty, territorial integrity and development interests. At the same time, we are willing to properly handle differences and disagreements in state-to-state relations."

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Source : The Wall Street Journal Interview, www.wsj.com. January 18, 2011.

Hu Jintao

#Country Quotes #Integrity Quotes #Differences Quotes

“Take life on life's terms - one day at a time. And have fun while you're doing it.”
“Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.”
“Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?”
“The advent of truth, like the dawn of day, agitates the elements, while it disperses the gloom.”

Source : Elias Lyman Magoon (1849). “Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom”, p.219
“It is true not all has been accomplished that the earnest advocates would desire, but a start has been made.”
“You forget what it was like. You'd swear on your life you never will, but year by year it falls away. How your temperature ran off the mercury, your heart galloped flat-out and never needed to rest, everything was pitched on the edge of shattering glass. How wanting something was like dying of thirst. How your skin was too fine to keep out any of the million things flooding by; every color boiled bright enough to scald you, any second of any day could send you soaring or rip you to bloody shreds.”
“Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,â€™ Holly advised him. â€˜That was Docâ€™s mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you canâ€™t give your heart to a wild thing; the more you do, the stronger they get. Until theyâ€™re strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. Thatâ€™s how youâ€™ll end up Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. Youâ€™ll end up looking at the sky.”
“Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading. The most beautiful love poems that were ever written are sonnets, composed in a very constraining form.”

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