#on

Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#i #life #music #music is my life #my life

It's a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies. ↗

— Iris Chang

#ads #babies #chinese #chinese culture #couples

It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before. ↗

— Iris Chang

#before #broad #difficult #discover #enough

We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order. ↗

— Asa Gray

#beliefs #books #considerations #different #down

There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country? ↗

— Iris Chang

#boston #cities #class #country #discussion

When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese. ↗

— Iris Chang

#came #ceremonies #chinese #colony #few

When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out. ↗

— Iris Chang

#broad #compression #decide #expansion #extremely

The Chinese seemed to be mourning Mao in a heartfelt fashion. But I wondered how many of their tears were genuine. People had practiced acting to such a degree that they confused it with their true feelings. ↗

— Jung Chang

#chinese #confused #degree #fashion #feelings

China is more prosperous than before. The people have better lives but they are not happy and confident because the scars are still there. ↗

— Jung Chang

#before #better #china #confident #happy

But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#entitled #look #politics