Lottie Moon
Missionary
"I would I had a thousand lives that I might give them to ... China!"
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China
144 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Deng Xiaoping
Politician
"Reform is Chinas second revolution."
Deng Xiaoping
Politician
"Even if they're functioning out of ignorance, they are still participating and must be suppressed. In China, even one million people can be considered a small sum."
Bill Gates
Business Magnate, Philanthropist
"China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%."
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china."
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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."
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"China is a much richer country than any part of Europe."
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"I am very interested in bringing companies from everywhere to sell their products in China."
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"The thing that makes me most optimistic is China and India - both of them doing well."
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"I want to go Africa. I want to go to China. There are some places I want to go not to work, but to really explore and to see for my own education."
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"China, slavishly dedicated to ancient scholars, incapable of generating within herself sufficient rulers to continue, without bloodshed, a nation."
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"Global crude oil demand is increasing, particularly in places like China"
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"Had Tibet not fallen away from dharma China could not have invaded."
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"We have never declared war on China. We have only asked them to leave us in peace, to let us have our natural freedom."
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"There was funky Chinamen from funky China town."
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"The 19th century belonged to England, the 20th century belonged to the U.S., and the 21st century belongs to China. Invest accordingly."
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"With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China."
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"I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague."
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"Modern China; one also finds many things that are really quite admirable."
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"Once [China] had a destiny. Once she was a conqueror. Now her greatest destiny seems to be merely to exist, to survive."
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"I feel perhaps my heart is still in China."
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"I've been to China and Russia, and I don't know anything about Chinese or Soviet relations."
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