"My father said he was going to write to the Jinzhou City Party Committee asking for permission to 'talk about love'...My mother supposed it was a bit like asking permission from the head of the family...the Communist Party was the new patriarch."

-- Jung Chang

#Mother Quotes #Father Quotes #Party Quotes

“Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.”
“How do you scare some sense into a child who doesnâ€™t fear death?”

Source : Todd Burpo (2014). “Heaven is for Real Movie Edition: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back”, p.114, Thomas Nelson Inc
“Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.”
“Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.”
“I worked with Mikhail Saakashvili for more than six years. I was his right-hand man. He never accused me of anything during that time. But the minute I switched to the opposition, I was suddenly called a criminal. It was a political maneuver.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Always endeavor to really be what you would wish to appear.”
“The world of immediate experience the world in which we find ourselves living must be comprehended, transformed, even subverted in order to become that which it really is.”
“The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.”

Source : Auguste Comte, John Henry Bridges (1865). “A General View of Positivism”, p.387, London, Trübner and Company

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