#mic

I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit. ↗

— Jung Chang

#awarded #began #china #died #first

One of the reasons the deficit got as big as it did, frankly, was because of the economic slowdown, the fall-off in deficits, the terrorist attacks. A significant chunk was taken out of the economy by what happened after the attacks of 9/11. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#attacks #because #big #chunk #deficit

I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed. ↗

— Lynne Cheney

#after #became #chairman #discovered #existed

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#great #great ones #like #magnifies #microscope

You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!! ↗

— Bill Watterson

#comic #education #funny #school #education

I am into belly dancing. I used to only hang with comics. Now I have friends who are dancers, and my whole house has a harem feel. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#belly #comics #dancers #dancing #feel

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#discontent #economic #economic growth #economists #fact

My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material. ↗

— Tommy Chong

#actually #again #beginning #gave #get

The Bahamas is headed for unprecedented economic activity. ↗

— Perry Christie

#bahamas #economic #economic activity #headed #unprecedented

There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#countries #economic #mechanism #same #style