China has to figure out where Vietnam is going, make sure that they offer the right incentives to prevent Vietnam from veering too far in the direction of the United States.


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It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their m...
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Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
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Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to...
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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greate...
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The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, whi...
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No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
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Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident...
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To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will ope...
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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is lo...
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Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates do...
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Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.
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The whole past is the procession of the present.
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The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
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The devil has his elect.
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All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.
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Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and...
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In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; ...
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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Society is founded upon cloth.
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If the cut of the costume indicates intellect and talent, then the color indicates temper and heart.
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Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
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Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of n...
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Wonder is the basis of worship.
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The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as E...
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silenc...
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Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
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