#rin

On top of my to-do list in preparing for Beijing is 'On China' by Henry Kissinger, who has had firsthand experience with every top Chinese leader since Mao, so his insights are valuable and his access is perhaps unrivaled. ↗

— Gary Locke

#beijing #china #chinese #every #experience

The growth model China has relied on for the last 30 years - one predicated on low-cost exports to the rest of the world and investment in resource intensive heavy manufacturing - is unlikely to serve it well in the next 30 years. ↗

— Gary Locke

#exports #growth #heavy #intensive #investment

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good. ↗

— John Locke

#dread #evil #forcible #good #human

I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#covering #criminal #i #like #murder

It's not a good thing to be friends with people you're covering. There's just no point in doing it. It's tempting, but they're not going to consider you their friend anyway. They just know that you're somebody that can do something for them. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#anyway #consider #covering #doing #friend

When people are entering a high-stress period, they don't sleep and don't exercise, but in fact, it should be just the opposite. ↗

— Jim Loehr

#exercise #fact #in fact #just #opposite

I am not as scared about people tearing this one up as I would have been in the past because of the basis in 'knowing' this one has. There are people out there that are hungry for this. ↗

— Kenny Loggins

#am #basis #because #been #hungry

When we were first offered a book deal prior to Avon's, they were trying to get us to change it from the first-person story into a how-to book, and they were offering us some decent money. My agent told me; "you should really consider this". ↗

— Kenny Loggins

#avon #book #change #consider #deal

The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#clean #cost #drinking #drinking water #earth

To prepare adequately for the challenge of global warming, we must acknowledge both the good and the bad that it will bring. If our starting point is to prove that Armageddon is on its way, we will not consider all of the evidence, and will not identify the smartest policy choices. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#adequately #armageddon #bad #both #bring