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““In China, the only creatures that can really block forward momentum are the leaders of the Communist Party. Zhu Rongji made his career by taming inflation, which reached an annual rate of 21.7 percent in 1994.””

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“in the words of jurist John Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court, “the power to tax involves the power to destroy.”

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“Yet Zhongguancun pales when measured against India’s Bangalore, where government-sponsored development efforts started at about the same time. Today Bangalore produces original product, which…

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“as long as our dreams outweigh our memories, America will be forever young”

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“China will make real progress in the fight against corruption only when prosecution and conviction are separated from politics.”

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“The students who surrendered the square on the morning of June 4 could not begin to imagine, in those sad days of 1989, that…

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“Consider these words from Lech Wałęsa: In the past, you could stand with a gun behind a man who had a pick and a…

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“Before laissez-faire there was wu wei. “Practise not doing and everything will fall into place,” says the Tao Te Ching, Taoism’s primer.”

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“at any given time about 30 percent of the stocks on China’s markets are being manipulated.”

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“Restraint, however, is the essence of modern governance. A government’s self-control permits its people to create, explore, and discover, and that’s what allows a…

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“Until the tide goes out you don’t know who’s swimming naked. —WARREN BUFFETT”

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“Communism went against life, against man’s fundamental needs, against the need for freedom, the need to be enterprising, to associate freely against the will…

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