#ch

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#beings #between #common #each #exists

I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#astonished #fantasy #forest #i #larger

In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence. ↗

— Ma Jian

#days #decades #each #gone #i

My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them. ↗

— Ma Jian

#capacity #chinese #chinese government #come #contrary

But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it's more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#blowing #blue-collar #deals #die #die hard

When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood. ↗

— Sam Ewing

#back #childhood #finally #find #go

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us. ↗

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#freedom #gift #hope #ideology #independence

I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation. ↗

— Clifton Fadiman

#build #conversation #genuine #i #i tried

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve. ↗

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#cannot #devotion #discipline #duty #faith

China has adopted and is implementing its national climate change program. This includes mandatory national targets for reducing energy intensity and discharge of major pollutants and increasing forest coverage and the share of renewable energy for the period of 2005 through 2010. ↗

— Hu Jintao

#change #china #climate #climate change #coverage