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“In China the underworld and officialdom have interpenetrated and become one. Criminal elements have become officialized as officials have become criminalized.”
Source : Xiaobo Liu, E. Perry Link, Tienchi Martin-Liao (2012). “No Enemies, No Hatred”, p.102, Harvard University Press
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“You're always better off if you quit smoking; it's never too late.”
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“It has become a cliché to announce that 'we live in a remix culture'... What was referred to in post-modern times as quoting, appropriation, and pastiche no longer needs any special name. Now this is simlpy the basic logic of cultural production.”
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“Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential part of living a just life.”
Source : Peter Singer (2010). “The Life You Can Save: How to play your part in ending world poverty”, p.21, Pan Macmillan
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“We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we're slip sliding away.”
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“Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.”
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“The distribution of wealth is even more unequal than that of income. ...The wealthiest 5% of American households held 54% of all wealth reported in the 1989 survey. Their share rose to 61% in 2010 and reached 63% in 2013. By contrast, the rest of those in the top half of the wealth distribution —families that in 2013 had a net worth between $81,000 and $1.9 million —held 43% of wealth in 1989 and only 36% in 2013.”
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“Well, it is a humiliating reflection, that the straightest road to a man's heart is through his palate.”
Source : Fanny Fern (1854). “Shadows and Sunbeams”, p.205
