China Quotes - Page 40

• Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China.

  John Howard

  Country, Years, Important Relationships

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In China, especially in the cities, if someone fainted on the streets, or if someone was knocked over by a car, you'll find lots of gawkers and gloaters, but rarely will you find someone willing to extend a helping hand.

  Unknown

  Hands, Cities, Car

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• I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.

  Reggie Jackson

  Sports, People, Care

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• The industrialization of China alone would increase by 90 percent the concentration of CO2 in our atmosphere and would at least increase the atmospheric CO2 by at least another 100 parts per million.

  John Olver

  Atmosphere, Industrialization, Increase

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• We all know that China is industrializing at a growth rate of 8 to 10 percent per year. China is on track to pass the U.S. as the largest economy in the world in 20 to 25 years, and China is determined to give its people a chance at this high standard of living that we enjoy.

  John Olver

  Years, People, Track

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• The retinue of a grandee in China or Indostan accordingly is, by all accounts, much more numerous and splendid than that of the richest subjects of Europe.

  Adam Smith

  Europe, Splendid, Accounts

  Adam Smith (2007). “The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: With an introduction by Jonathan B. Wight, University of Richmond”, p.207, Harriman House Limited

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• China is a much richer country than any part of Europe.

  Adam Smith

  Country, Europe, Wealth Of Nations

  Adam Smith (1819). “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.262

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• The Republic-of-China - back in the Olympic Games for the first time

  David Coleman

  Inspirational, Funny, Games

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• And Mocha's berry, from Arabia pure, In small fine china cups, came in at last. Gold cups of filigree, made to secure the hand from burning, underneath them place. Cloves, cinnamon and saffron, too, were boiled Up with the coffee, which, I think, they spoiled.

  Lord Byron

  Coffee, Food, Thinking

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• Tea at college was served on long tables with an urn at the end of each. Long baguettes of bread, three to a table, were set out with meagre portions of butter and jam; the china was coarse to withstand the schoolboy-clutch and the tea strong. At the Hôtel de Paris I was astonished at the fragility of the cups, the silver teapot, the little triangular savoury sandwiches, the éclairs stuffed with cream.

  Graham Greene

  Strong, Food, College

  Graham Greene (1966). “The Comedians”

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• I just don't think most of us are aware how much of what we throw away ends up in the ocean, for starters. Plastic bags are among the worst. The US is actually falling behind the curve on that score. China and many other countries have already banned the production and use of thin plastic bags.

  Edward Norton

  Country, Ocean, Fall

  "Earth Chats: Edward Norton". The Washington Post Live Chat, www.slate.com. April 22, 2008.

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• I travel to the Middle East, I travel to China, I travel to Europe. It's all very rewarding - the only problem is the travel is getting more and more difficult for me now. Ten years ago I would have enjoyed it a lot more.

  I. M. Pei

  Years, Europe, Middle East

  Source: archtalks.com

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• I know something about the civilization of China, with my background, obviously, and I think I know something about American history. But that's about all. And I've traveled all over the world, and for a long time I didn't know very much about it, really.

  I. M. Pei

  Thinking, Civilization, Long

  Source: archtalks.com

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• We have to develop a strong economic message which says every American is entitled to health care through a national health care program. And we're not going to allow these large corporations to push through trade agreements which allow them to throw Americans out on the street and run to China.

  Bernie Sanders

  Running, Strong, Agreement

  Interview with Ruth Conniff, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. December 1, 2005.

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• Some technologies don't pan out; some companies fail. But I will not walk away from the promise of clean energy. ... I will not cede the wind or solar or battery industry to China or Germany because we refuse to make the same commitment here.

  Barack Obama

  Commitment, Technology, Wind

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 24 January 2012, Washington, D.C.

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• Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Country, Israel, Should Have

  "Netanyahu on peace". Speech at Tel Aviv's Bar Ilan University, Israel, www.aljazeera.com. November 24, 1989.

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• The number of people displaced by dams is estimated at between 40 million and 80 million, most of them in China and India. The costs of dams were on average 50% above their original estimate. Some designed to reduce flooding made it worse, and there were many unexpected environmental disadvantages, including the extinction of fish and bird species. Half the world's wetlands had been lost because of dams.

  Paul Brown

  Average, Numbers, People

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• This week I've travelled more than 15,000 miles from America to China to Burma to Australia. I have no idea what time it is right now.

  Barack Obama

  Memorable, Ideas, America

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• Hostility towards China distorted Australia's international affairs for 20 years until 1972, but reconciliation with China 30 years ago had produced a quarter century of constructive bipartisan relations with our region and the world, unmatched in Australian history.

  Gough Whitlam

  Memorable, Years, Australia

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• India and China are improving by leaps and bounds and it will be their chess players who will lead the revolution of the XXI century.

  Judit Polgar

  Player, India, Chess

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• Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Egypt, Doors

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• I'm a firm believer that all sports will eventually be global. Someday, we may have a quarterback from China named Yao Fling.

  Paul Tagliabue

  Funny, Sports, Football

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• Al Gore wants us to clean up our factories...when China and other countries couldn't care less. China, Japan, and India are laughing at America's stupidity.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Japan, America

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• Extreme weather like the droughts in Russia, China and Brazil and the flooding in Pakistan and Australia [in 2010] have contributed to a level of food price volatility we haven't seen since the oil crisisof 40 years ago. Unfortunately, this could be just a taste of things to come because in the next few decades the build-up of greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere could greatly increase the risk of droughts, flooding, pest infestation and water scarcity for agriculture systems already under tremendous stress.

  John Beddington

  Stress, Weather, Oil

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• There are no boundaries in the real Planet Earth. No United States, no Soviet Union, no China, no Taiwan...Rivers flow unimpeded across the swaths of continents. The persistent tides - the pulse of the sea - do not discriminate; they push against all the varied shores on Earth.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Real, Sea, Rivers

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