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• China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Opportunity
  • Community

• Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Obsessed
  • General
  • Sneakers

• Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • People
  • Believe
  • Real

• In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Human
  • Rights
  • Human Rights

• I always tell people I'm very large in Uzbekistan.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Always
  • Tell

• Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Government
  • Prejudice

• The jests of the rich are ever successful.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Successful
  • Rich
  • Ever

• It's interesting to try to imagine how early humans discovered what was edible and what wasn't. Who figured out that when you cooked stinging nettles, the sting would go away completely? How many people had to die before the relative toxicity of wild mushrooms became widely known?

  

  Kate Christensen
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Die

• It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Why
  • History
  • Future

• Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Political
  • Practice
  • Doctor

• Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Art
  • Experience
  • End

• I attended Amherst College from 1951 to 1955. The first two years were a revelation. There were innumerable exchanges with brilliant classmates, among them the playwright Ralph Allen, the classics scholar Robert Fagles, and the composer Michael Sahl.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • College
  • First
  • Classmates

• What sweet, what happy days had I,When dreams made Time Eternity!

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Sweet

• A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it. But I have always wanted to think my own thoughts about a subject without being overly influenced by what others have thought before me.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Knowledge
  • Thoughts

• Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Nature
  • Chess
  • Goddess

• On the plus side, it's a lot easier in general to find /usr/include than cpp.

  

  Larry Wall

• Relearn astonishment, stop grasping for knowledge, lose the habit of the past.

  

  Elias Canetti
  • Past
  • Knowledge
  • Stop

• You can't take yourself too seriously.

  

  LeRoy Neiman

• If you want to play a complex, turmoiled character, then give him a dose of Catholicism.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • Character

• I really am serious abut catfish farming. I'm very interested in aquaculture.

  

  Leon Russell
  • Serious

• I spent two months in Fredericksburg, Texas, when I was 8, while my father shot a movie, and I loved it. I just embraced the whole cowboy culture. I got myself a pair of awesome boots and a cowboy hat.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • Movie
  • Father
  • Culture

• The forest is peaceful, why aren’t you? You hold on to things causing your confusion. Let nature teach you. Hear the bird’s song then let go. If you know nature, you’ll know truth. If you know truth, you’ll know nature.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Song
  • Teach
  • Bird

• Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight.'

  

  Joshua Foer
  • Language
  • Century
  • Democratic

• Big players want to play in front of big audiences.

  

  Kevin Pietersen