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Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#break #establish #great #great minds #intellectual

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#consent #depress #down #hardship #influence

Facebook is inherently viral. There are lots of sites that include a contact importer, and for lots of them it doesn't really make sense. For Facebook it fits so well. It wasn't until a few years in that we started building some tools that made it easier to import friends to the site. That was a huge thing that spiked growth. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#contact #easier #facebook #few #fits

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#dignity #knowledge #mind #quality #quantity

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#air #body #cheering #communication #cut

Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#condition #force #found #grandeur #humblest

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#get #i #i can #imagine #luxury

Bubbles are best identified by credit excesses, not valuation excesses. And there's no bigger credit excess than in China. ↗

— James Chanos

#bigger #bubbles #china #credit #excess

Increasingly, the real estate developers can't get bank loans for their project financing in China. They're now going into the Hong Kong market to raise money in the bond market at very, very high rates, as high as 15, 20 percent. ↗

— James Chanos

#bond #china #developers #estate #financing

There's almost 70 billion in square feet under construction in high rises in commercial, residential and light manufacturing. And we estimate about 30 billion square feet, and that's with a 'B,' is commercial, that we would just consider office space. To put that in perspective, that's a 5x5-foot cubicle for every man, woman and child in China. ↗

— James Chanos

#almost #billion #child #china #commercial