"I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit."

-- Jung Chang

#West Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Merit Quotes

“A map, it is said, organizes wonder.”
“The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential â€” and enemies to push us beyond it.”
“People have fallen in love with words and lost the world. Itâ€™s time to regain it.”
“The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.”
“We had a level of tariffs of about five per cent. Now a lot of those will go, most of them will go over time, some of them immediately. Now that means that electronic goods and other things, white goods, coming into Australia, will be cheaper for our community. It also means in many cases that the inputs used by our high-end manufacturers to make a final product are also coming in cheaper than they otherwise would - so it makes those manufacturers more competitive.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“I've looked at pictures that my mom has of me, from when I was four years old at the turntable. I'm there, reaching up to play the records. I feel like I was bred to do what I do. I've been into music, and listening to music and critiquing it, my whole life.”
“It's about a father and daughter and the daughter's friend and her relationship with her current husband.”
“We [Americans] have a historical trauma when it comes to the past relationships when it comes to Native Americans and the history of how America was created. With this film, it's nice to see that the trauma is presented from a white male that was in the Civil War and that trauma affects him in a way that still exists.”

Source : Source: www.chud.com

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