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“Famine was quite deliberately employed as an instrument of national policy, as the last means of breaking the resistance of the peasantry to the new system where they are divorced from personal ownership of the land and obligated to work on the conditions which the state may demand from them... This famine may fairly be called political because it was not the result of any overwhelming natural catastrophe or such complete exhaustions of the country's resources in foreign and civil wars.”

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William Henry Chamberlin

William Henry Chamberlin was an accomplished American journalist, born on February 17, 1897, and died on September 12, 1969. He is renowned for his in-depth reporting on Asia, particularly China, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. more

“A dog does not live as long as a man and this natural law is the fount of many tears. If boy and puppy might grow to manhood and doghood together, and together grow old, and so in due course die, full many a heartache might be avoided. But the world is not so ordered, and dogs will die and men will weep for them so long as there are dogs and men.”

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Book:Thrifty Stock: And Other Stories

Source: Thrifty Stock: And Other Stories

“Greater even than the greatest discovery is to keep open the way to future discovery.”

Way Greater Discovery

Book:Experimental and chemical studies of the blood: with an appeal for more extended chemical training for the biological and medical investigator

Source: Experimental and chemical studies of the blood: with an appeal for more extended chemical training for the biological and medical investigator

“When the winds of adversity come, remember one thing--kites fly the very highest against the wind. Kites don't fly in spite of opposition, kites fly high because of opposition. In fact, they couldn't fly without opposition.”

Facts Remember One Thing Wind Highest Adversity Spite Opposition Kites

Author:John By

“Every technological product has to be designed and its fabrication overseen, and this is what engineers DO.”

Products Engineers Technological Fabrication

Author:Samuel Florman

“No nation has been able to establish itself, as a nation in Palestine up to this day, no national union and no national spirit have prevailed there. The motley, impoverished tribes which have occupied it have held it as mere tenants at will, temporary landowners, evidently waiting for those entitled to the permanent possession of the soil.”