#west

For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples. ↗

— Hu Shih

#brought #changes #china #chinese #chinese people

It's just a great, legendary comic book hero and it's one that has never been kind of been brought back to life after Lynda Carter. I mean, it's a reinvention. When Tim Burton reinvented Batman after Adam West, and when Donner reinvented Superman after George Reeves, it's time to do that with Wonder Woman. ↗

— Joel Silver

#after #back #batman #been #book

The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany. ↗

— Gordon Sinclair

#british #dollar #ever #exchanges #french

Yes, I think India's economy always has been a mixed economy, and by Western standards we are much more of a market economy than a public sector-driven economy. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

#been #economy #i #i think #india

Today nearly every combat brigade located within the United States would report that they are not ready for duty. They are at the lowest levels of readiness. ↗

— Ike Skelton

#combat #duty #every #levels #located

There's something about doing theatre in London - it sinks a little bit deeper into your soul as an actor. It's something about the tradition of theatre, about performing on the West End stage. ↗

— Christian Slater

#actor #bit #deeper #doing #end

When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#force #girl #i #law #physical

No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#interested #out #politics #westminster #who

Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

#come #discouraged #exercise #faith #good

It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum. ↗

— Jerry Springer

#chewing gum #civilization #end #gum #just