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The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction. ↗

— Gary Locke

#beijing #china #clear #direction #dissent

We want to promote people-to-people exchanges so that China and the United States can really join together, not just to solve the problems of China or the United States, but some of the big problems facing the entire world. From climate change to famine to even terrorism. ↗

— Gary Locke

#big problems #change #china #climate #climate change

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards. ↗

— John Locke

#balance #beams #downwards #every #excellent

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. ↗

— John Locke

#fountain #parents #poisoned #streams #themselves

Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#lend #most #some #stories #television

She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#benefit #great #great problems #grim #her

Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#else #energy #expressed #form #life

Of mediumship there are many grades, one of the simplest forms being the capacity to receive an impression or automatic writing, under peaceful conditions, in an ordinary state; but the whole subject is too large to be treated here. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#being #capacity #conditions #forms #grades

I've made music for grownups most of my life as a singer/songwriter - often with my band, Nine Stories - recorded many albums, and 10 years ago I started recording kid's music, too. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#albums #band #grownups #i #kid

When I see that my geek may have contained some of the best parts of me, when I love and appreciate him, I set my children free to see themselves as lovable however they are. ↗

— Kenny Loggins

#best #children #contained #free #geek