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I’d noticed soon after starting the job that whenever I got angry at the same things as everyone else, they all seemed happy. If I went along with the manager when he was annoyed or joined in the general irritation at someone skiving off
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“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion
“In retaliation, Zhou ordered the Red Squad to assassinate Gu’s entire family, some fifteen people, and this order was scrupulously carried out.”
― China 1945: Mao's Revolution and America's Fateful Choice
― China 1945: Mao's Revolution and America's Fateful Choice
“Mao assured Forman of the CCP’s democratic aspirations and its admiration of western values. “We are not striving for the social and political Communism of Soviet Russia,” he told him. “Rather, we prefer to think of what we are doing as something that Lincoln fought for in your Civil War: the liberation of slaves.”
― China 1945: Mao's Revolution and America's Fateful Choice
― China 1945: Mao's Revolution and America's Fateful Choice
“Warned by some of his advisers that Stalin would devour whole countries after the war, Roosevelt’s feeling was that “Stalin is not that kind of man.”
― China 1945: Mao's Revolution and America's Fateful Choice
― China 1945: Mao's Revolution and America's Fateful Choice
“The next time American pilots bailed out into the hands of Communist troops was in Korea about five years later, and the reception this time was imprisonment and torture, which makes the level of wartime cooperation all the more amazing and the decline of the relationship into enmity all the more shocking and costly.”
― China 1945: Mao's Revolution and America's Fateful Choice
― China 1945: Mao's Revolution and America's Fateful Choice
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