Richard N Haass The abolition of the presidential term limit and President Xi Jinping’s concentration of power have come as an unwelcome surprise to many. – Richard N Haass Abolition Quotes Concentration Quotes Jinpings Quotes Limit Quotes Power Quotes President Quotes Presidential Quotes Surprise Quotes Term Quotes Unwelcome Quotes Xi Quotes The U.S. does not want to live under the shadow of a North Korea that possesses long-range missiles capable of delivering nuclear payloads to American cities. At the same time, the U.S. has no appetite for a war that would prove costly by every measure. Americans were happy to buy vast quantities of relatively inexpensive Chinese manufactured goods, demand for which provided jobs for the tens of millions of Chinese who moved from poor agricultural areas to new or rapidly expanding cities.
ArtMusicWassily Kandinsky With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist’s soul, in musical sound. – Wassily Kandinsky
David Souter The language of the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection of the laws did not change between 1896 and 1954, and it would be very hard to say that the obvious facts on which ‘Plessy’ was based had changed. – David Souter
Katherine JenkinsWedding I would absolutely, definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I’d like it to be a special day, not a photo shoot. And once you’ve done that, your marriage becomes everybody else’s business. – Katherine Jenkins
Brian EnoMusicSpace Once music ceases to be ephemeral – always disappearing – and becomes instead material… it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time. – Brian Eno
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