#chin

Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources. ↗

— Martin Van Creveld

#become #china #continues #develop #does

Gandhi has more recently recognized the need for continuance of British, American and Chinese efforts in India and has suggested that these troops might remain by agreement with some new Indian Government. ↗

— Stafford Cripps

#american #british #chinese #continuance #efforts

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#character #consists #consuming #deliberately #describe

I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#bird #i #learning #lot #spend

Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#chinese #civilisation #principle #systematic #wild

If you're keeping yourself in the bubble and only looking at your own data or only watching the TV that fits your agenda then it gets boring. ↗

— Nate Silver

#boring #bubble #data #fits #gets

Almost everything is like a machine. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#everything #like #machine

There is no question of the benefits that opening a market of a billion people will bring to American businesses. But as I said last year, this will test China and the world trade system. ↗

— William M. Daley

#american businesses #benefits #billion #bring #businesses

I'm just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#how #i #just #like #machine

The economy is like a machine. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#like #machine