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Xi Jinping can explore a new mass democracy in his own way, without the chaos, disorder and blood, and without the darkness and negatives.

--Zhang Hongliang

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China's Censors Ban Winnie the Pooh and the Letter 'N' After Xi's Power Grab

--newyorktimes.com

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When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in.

-- Haruki Murakami

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Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.

-- Salman Rushdie

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TRUMP'S BIG BUTTON TO THAI PENIS WHITENING: HAIL THE EMPEROR, WITHOUT HIS CLOTHES

-- scmp.com

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Blind bisexual goose named Thomas who spent six years in a love triangle with two swans and helped raise 68 babies dies at the ripe old age of 40

--dailymail.com

Ed: I know.  I know!  I didn't know anyone else read this damn thing either.

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If I get on these other subjects, it divides the audience on an issue that is not the issue I'm promoting.

--Billy Graham

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Scientists Grow Sheep Embryos With Human Cells To Revolutionize Organ Transplant

--techtimes.com

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We ask that customers embrace civility and respect one another when flying Delta.

-- Delta Airlines Statement

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Two thirds of the world's blind are women.

-- International Society for the Prevention of Blindness

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The Catholics have a religion based on fear, smoke, and murder. 

--Quincy Jones

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When you go after Cîroc vodka and Phat Farm and all that shit, God walks out of the room.

-- Quincy Jones

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$30 for a soda? Super Bowl stadium is full of sky-high concession prices

-- usatoday.com

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If this community (and others like it) are built on the idea of friendship through competition, camaraderie through our shared pains in pushing ourselves, our friends, and these games to their limits, then we must strive for honesty and legitimacy. A house built on lies is not worth living in.

-- Dave Hawksett, on the stripping of Donkey Kong high score records of Billy Mitchell