Jose Bergamin Quotes
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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E-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.
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There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.
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I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like and I enjoy creating that ambience and atmosphere - 1730 to around 1870 is the most interesting period.
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I write about real life as it is lived by the young American Muslim women that I've had the pleasure of meeting throughout the course of my travels as a writer and being able to speak in different places and meet different people at signings and things.
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Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
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There are people who consider it almost unpatriotic to be inquisitive and to be truthful about your opinions.
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I guess I'm attracted to people who are singing about love or life, and they have a particular passion that I can connect with.
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The owners have the right to pay you whatever they want to. They don't have to pay you if they don't want to.
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The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary oppositions: Religious and secular, backward and enlightened, free and unfree. But if we are to admit how deeply and irrevocably interconnected our world is, then we must find new ways to break the cycle of counter-productive violence.
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The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra.
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And I feel that it's inevitable that the work that I do will reflect the life that I live. And the life I live feels very diverse.
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I love children, love spending time with them; I love getting things for them.
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It's incredibly, incredibly difficult to get a movie made.
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Changing people's beliefs and altering behaviors is a very difficult challenge in any setting.
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The only time a man thinks is when he's alone.
