#chi

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

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

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

We will make every effort with utmost sincerity to achieve a peaceful reunification of the country. ↗

— Hu Jintao

#country #effort #every #make #peaceful

I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate. ↗

— Elton John

#beautiful #book #christ #collected #compassionate

Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure. ↗

— Lara St. John

#although #am #amazing #believe #child

I have this dog named Marley, and it is a kind of love I had never known. I have a hard time believing Marley did not come from my body. I know that sounds insane, but I feel that connected to her. She made me realize I wanted to adopt children. ↗

— Edie Falco

#believing #body #children #come #connected

I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child. ↗

— Edie Falco

#biological #child #children #having #i

I'm on 'Two and a Half Men,' and I don't want to be on it. Please stop watching it, and filling your head with filth. ↗

— Angus T. Jones

#filth #half #head #i #men