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“Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party [Communist Party of China] and the downfall of the State [People's Republic of China].”
Source : "Opinion: Corruption as China's top priority" by Jaime A. FlorCruz, edition.cnn.com. January 7, 2013. 
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“Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they'll enjoy it.”
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“It always seems to me that so few people live - they just seem to exist and I don't see any reason why we shouldn't live always - til we die physically.”
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“In real life, my son had a little injury a couple of years ago where we had moved into a new house and he put his hand through a glass window and it cut him really badly. Thank god he had surgery and repaired everything, but I remember I felt frozen I was so scared, and then I realized I was holding my hand just because his hand was hurt.”
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“Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns--fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns--seem to melt away, and people get another perspective on their lives. The important things are really important, and the trivia of life is trivialized.”
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“Rediscovering the controversies that occupied early Christianity sharpens our awareness of the major issue in the whole debate, then and now: What is the source of religious authority? For the Christian the question takes more specific form: What is the relation between the authority of ones own experience and that claimed for the scriptures, the ritual and the clergy?”
Source : Elaine Pagels (2004). “The Gnostic Gospels”, p.199, Random House
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“There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a bone-deep security that goes with the brush of a human hand, a silent, reflex-level affirmation that someone is near, that someone cares.”
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“Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.”
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“Few scientists would treat their cars as badly as they treat their conceptual schemes.”
Source : Mary Midgley (2004). “Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature”, p.70, Routledge
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“I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.”
