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There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in Poland, and Eastern Europe was plunged into slavery as a consequence. ↗

— Mark Shields

#agreements #broke #completely #consequence #eastern

What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to private boarding schools. They both went to a prestigious university. ↗

— Mark Shields

#both #england #families #house #men

For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#agenda #challenges #compared #forward #gilded

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility. ↗

— Hu Shih

#absolute truth #arouse #eternal #intellectual #only

I liked the piano. I always liked playing. I just hated homework. ↗

— Mike Shinoda

#hated #homework #i #i always #just

The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development. ↗

— Hu Shih

#chinese people #development #kinds #people #religious

Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights. ↗

— Hu Shih

#chinese #electric #elimination #gas #i

My dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and shouldn't be trusted. ↗

— Mike Shinoda

#citizens #class #class citizens #dad #japanese

China should bury head to work diligently for 10 years and then raise head to face Japan. ↗

— Yuan Shikai

#china #diligently #face #head #japan

Though the body moves, the soul may stay behind. ↗

— Murasaki Shikibu

#body #may #moves #soul #stay