"The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development."

-- William C. Kirby

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“I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.”
“When you're playing to an audience that isn't your own, it's quite scary.”
“Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny should take a few pointers from the mutual-fund industry. All three are trying to pull off elaborate hoaxes. But while Santa and the bunny suffer the derision of eight year olds everywhere, actively-managed stock funds still have an ardent following among otherwise clear-thinking adults. This continued loyalty amazes me. Reams of statistics prove that most of the fund industry's stock pickers fail to beat the market.”
“I want to unfold. I donâ€™t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.”
“June laughs. "I have to say, you look better than most people I see. I've heard a lot about you." "I hear about you a lot too," Eden replies in a rush, "mostly from Daniel. He thinks you're really hot.”
“Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons, but one out of one.”
“It is probably fair to estimate the frequency of a majority of mutations, in higher organisms, between one in ten thousand and one in a million per gene per generation.”
“It is well known that the man who first made public the theory of irrationals perished in a shipwreck in order that the inexpressible and unimaginable should ever remain veiled. And so the guilty man, who fortuitously touched on and revealed this aspect of living things, was taken to the place where he began and there is for ever beaten by the waves.”

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