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In China the underworld and officialdom have interpenetrated and become one. Criminal elements have become officialized as officials have become criminalized. Liu Xiaobo

Become Criminal Underworld Officials China Elements

Love as intense as ice, love as remote as blackness. Liu Xiaobo

Love Blackness Remote Intense Ice

In order to exercise the right to freedom of speech conferred by the Constitution, one should fulfill the social responsibility of a Chinese citizen. Liu Xiaobo

Freedom Constitution Citizen Responsibility Freedom Of Speech Exercise Conferred Order Chinese Social Fulfill Should Social Responsibility Right Speech

I do my best to make every word from my pen a cry from the heart for the souls of the dead. Liu Xiaobo

Best Heart Word Every Pen Cry Dead Make Souls

Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it. Louis Kronenberger

Innocence Must About Something Rather Unconscious Individualism Like

Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow. Louis Kronenberger

Death Privacy Before Danger TV Given Blow Appeared Sufficient

In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought. Louis Kronenberger

Art Lie Tears Thought Too Deep

Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace. Ludwig Quidde

Peace Total Maintenance Disarmament Does Even Universal Guarantee

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment. Ludwig Quidde

Insist Danger Point Grave

The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second. Ludwig Quidde

Great Relationship Peace Problems First Great Extent Security Rather Disarmament Reverse Dependent Second Extent Two Guarantees

So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible. Ludwig Quidde

Peace Law Protection Impossible Long Country Military Must Case Argue Attained Disarmament Until Undermined Advocate

It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a nation, as well as on its budget and taxes. Ludwig Quidde

Will Nation Enormous Resources Economic Point Budget Well Intellectual Burdens Place Which Social Taxes Sufficient

In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic. Ludwig Quidde

Life Logic More Powerful Particularly Than Psychology Public Public Life

I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference. Ludwig Quidde

History Law Will First Beginning Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Divided Written Hague Periods Am End Times Conference The History Of Being Centuries Century Convinced International International Law Hence Earliest Second Two

The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint. Lytton Strachey

Genius Simplicity Language Single Unity Latin Clarity Restraint Triumphed Direction Most French French Language Stock Contrary Descended

In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought. Lytton Strachey

Great Thought Pure Indeed Triumphs Writers Were Domain Achieved Eighteenth Eighteenth Century Literature Century Many Peculiar

With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin. Lytton Strachey

Word Few Every Latin Vocabulary Exceptions French Very Straight

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved. Lytton Strachey

Time Language Nation Ruins Evolved Slowly Civilization New French Came Existence Same Gradually Roman Same Time Among

The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own. Lytton Strachey

Rare Own Our He French French Literature Amateur Very Common Literature

Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past. Lytton Strachey

Future Writing Thought Style Past Spirit He Almost Equally His Modern Middle Middle Ages Ages Deeply Belonged

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