"When I was living in China, I learned……" — James Fallows
"When I was living in China, I learned to make things hyper-explicit because often they were being read by people whose command of English kept them from picking up what I thought were obvious signals."
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34 Quotes by James Fallows
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A rigid America is also weak and vulnerable, because it sacrifices its unique strength: the energy of people who think…
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The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1…
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Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job.
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According to the Office of Technology Assessment, 3 Minuteman missiles and 7 Poseidon missiles could destroy 73 percent of oil-refining…
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It is not widely known that, ever since the end of the Korean War, the United States has spent essentially…
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Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.
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Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the…
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Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate.
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Successful societies-those which progress economically and politically and can control the terms on which they deal with the outside world-succeed…
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Make the important interesting.
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Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.
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Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko…
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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In practice, I've had a presence in China since 1998 with my commercial spaces and shops.
— Giorgio Armani
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For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see…
— Diane Ackerman
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Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the…
— Joe Baca
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What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the…
— Michele Bachmann
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I drink a bucket of white tea in the morning. I read about this tea of the Emperor of China,…
— Antonio Banderas
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China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals.
— Brigitte Bardot
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I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the…
— Jose Manuel Barroso
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Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all…
— Robert Benchley
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I always love China, especially the old China.
— Manolo Blahnik
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China is investing in factories in Eastern Europe, not because their labor costs are lower, but because they want to…
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