Chinese Quotes - Page 35

• The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand; no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!

  Franz Grillparzer

  Country, Wall, Want

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• For the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophy, it is of no importance whether Plato or Aristotle ever lived. For the mystical practice of an Indian, Persian, Chinese, or Neo-Platonic mystic it is a matter of indifference whether Rama, Buddha, Laotse, or Porphyrius are myths or not. The mystic has no personal relation to them. It is not here a question of somebody telling me the truth which of myself I cannot find, but of my finding an access to the depths of the world in the depths of my soul.

  Emil Brunner

  Plato, Philosophy, Practice

  Emil Brunner (1931). “The Word and the World”

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• One of the things that was really influential early on was Ezra Pound's Cantos, one poem he worked on for 50 years. It's epic. I had a great deal of difficulty understanding it. One of the problems was you'd be reading along in English and he would move to a Chinese ideogram or French-he actually used seven different languages in a given poem. And for somebody who's not fluent in different languages it has the impact of rupturing your way of understanding something.

  Richard Misrach

  Photography, Moving, Reading

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• When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talk-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves. We could be heroines, swordswomen. Even if she had to rage across all China, a swordswoman got even with anybody who hurt her family. Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Girl, Hurt, Feet

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.24, Vintage

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• If some Western politician claims he is in a position to use the normal Western methods to feed and clothe 1.2 billion Chinese, we would be happily prepared to elect him president of China.

  Li Peng

  President, Normal, Would Be

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• The urge for Chinese food is always unpredictable: famous for no occasion, standard fare for no holiday, and the constant as to demand is either whim, the needy plebiscite of instantly famished drunks, or pregnancy.

  Alexander Theroux

  Pregnancy, Holiday, Demand

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• You know the world is messed up when the tallest man in the NBA is Chinese, the best golfer is black, and the best rapper is white.

  Chris Rock

  Men, Rapper, Nba

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• Navarette, a Chinese missionary, agrees with Leibniz and says that "It is the special providence of God that the Chinese did not know what was done in Christendom; for if they did, there would be never a man among them, but would spit in our faces.

  Matthew Tindal

  Men, Special, Done

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• I engage with New York and America but my parents pretty much hang out in this radius of Long Island where their friends are and where their work is. That's why you have people who have lived in New York for like 20, 30 years who don't speak English. They just live in a Chinese community or an Indian community. More than anywhere you'll find that in Queens.

  Himanshu Suri

  New York, Queens, Islands

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One of the things that I realized when I left office was that in the 1990's citizens across the world applied more power than they had ever had, as compared with the government, because of more people living under democracies than dictatorships for the first time, the power of the internet, which the young Chinese used to basically change China's policy on the SARS epidemic, and shut it down, and because of the rise in non-governmental organizations like my foundation.

  William J. Clinton

  Epidemics, Government, Organization

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• There's not much value to us attacking Chinese systems. We might take a few computers offline. We might take a factory offline. We might steal secrets from a university research programs, and even something high-tech. But how much more does the United States spend on research and development than China does?

  Edward Snowden

  Research And Development, Secret, United States

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We need the security standards to apply to the internet. We need to be able to trust that when we send our emails through Verizon, that Verizon isn't sharing with the NSA, that Verizon isn't sharing them with the FBI or German intelligence or French intelligence or Russian intelligence or Chinese intelligence.

  Edward Snowden

  Nsa, Email, Needs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I guess we didn't even officially apologize. Jesse Jackson called on the United States to officially apologize to the Chinese. Jesse said, 'An apology is not a sign of weakness.' And as President Clinton has taught us, an apology isn't even a sign you're sorry.

  Jay Leno

  Sorry, Apology, Taught Us

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• All men - whether they go by the name of Americans or Russians or Chinese or British or Malayans or Indians or Africans - have obligations to one another that transcend their obligations to their sovereign societies.

  Norman Cousins

  Men, Names, Sovereign

  Norman Cousins (1962). “In Place of Folly”

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• All the rest of the world uses the word electricity. They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!

  Mao Zedong

  Use, World, Electricity

  Zedong Mao, Helmut Martin, Gerhard Will, Martin Krott (1982). “Mao Zedong Texte: Bd. 1959-1960”

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• President Bush said that American workers will need new skills to get the new jobs in the 21st century. Some of the skills they're going to need are Spanish, Chinese, Korean, because that's where the jobs went. Who better than Bush as an example of what can happen when you take a job without any training.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, Skills, Training

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• If you go to old houses on Long Island you will see painted Chinese wallpaper, which was big in the 18th century. Throughout history, notable, established families have always tried to link to the 18th century.

  Catherine Martin

  Islands, Long, House

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• The Malays are spiritually inclined, tolerant and easy-going. The non-Malays, and especially the Chinese, are materialistic, aggressive and have an appetite for work. For equality to come about, it is necessary that these strikingly contrasting races adjust to each other.

  Mahathir Mohamad

  Race, Materialistic, Easy

  "The Malay Dilemma". Book by Mahathir Mohamad, 1970.

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• As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson.

  Henry Adams

  Play, History, Lessons

  Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels (1992). “Henry Adams, Selected Letters”, p.328, Harvard University Press

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• Like most Chinese, I am basically a fatalist - too sophisticated for religion and too superstitious to deny the gods.

  Bette Lord

  Religion, Sophisticated, Deny

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• In yielding we are like the water, by nature placid, conforming to the hollow of the smallest hand; in time, shaping even the mountains to its will. Thus we keep duty and honor. We cherish clan and civilization. We are Chinese.

  Bette Lord

  Hands, Civilization, Water

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• I founded Wang Laboratories . . . to show that Chinese could excel at things other than running laundries and restaurants.

  Dr. An Wang

  Running, Laundry, Restaurants

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• Early Chinese thinkers had taken variety at face value. They had favored diversification and collected anomalies instead of trying to explain them away.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Taken, Trying, Anomalies

  "Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Richness". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1999.

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• What would we say if the Chinese sent a gunboat with their marines up the Mississippi River claiming they were protecting their laundries in Memphis?

  Will Rogers

  Marine, Rivers, Memphis

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• You know, the Chinese don't like to be photographed because they believe that a part of their life is being taken away by the photographer. And in a way, they're right. The photographer is trying to get the prettiest moment of a life in his camera.

  Bert Stern

  Believe, Taken, Trying

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