Quotes from the Unlikely to be Quoted: Zhou En Lai

All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.

• For us, it is all right if the talks succeed, and it is all right if they fail.

• China is an attractive piece of meat coveted by all … but very tough, and for years no one has been able to bite into it.

• We shall use only peaceful means and we shall not permit any other kind of method.

• It is too soon to say.
  • Often, thought to refer to the significance of the French Revolution of 1789.

Quotes from the Unlikely to be Quoted: Mao Zedong

Women hold up half the sky.
Mao Zedong
Let a hundred flowers bloom.
Mao Zedong

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.
Mao Zedong

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
Mao Zedong
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
Mao Zedong

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
Mao Zedong
The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
Mao Zedong

I voted for you during your last election.
Mao Zedong
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
Mao Zedong

We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
Mao Zedong

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
Mao Zedong
Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.
Mao Zedong

Quotes from the unlikely to be quoted: Pol Pot

When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and I want to stress that. My conscience is clear

Pol Pot on his return from the Sorbonne, Paris.

Quotes from the Unlikely to be Quoted

"Sometimes - history needs a push".
Vladimir Lenin
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During his secret return from Paris into Russia, living in politically friendly homes, en route to Moscow...travelling as an anonymous being.

The Question: "You have met Comrade Lenin, the Great leader, what is he like?"
Lenin's Answer: "Well, he is much like you or me, but shorter. He is not a physically impressive man, but he does have some ideas, and he enjoys these ideas."

I miss my brother Michel de Montaigne

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

 

Michel de Montaigne, Paris, 1548AD

The Wake and Hospice Bridge- Palliative Care/buyer information

1: The Wake book is a slim book of about 57 pages about people I've met in Palliative Care nursing. It is intensely personal really, and I still like it the most.

2: Hospice Bridge includes The Wake within in it and is a bigger book with more difficult stories and also the ideological position from which I have worked in the area, which is Zen Atheist, I guess, and it includes my hopes for the future of the science of palliative care. It will be about 150 pages I expect. Neither are big or expensive books.

From recall, I sold The Wake for about $US10 each copy.
 
I can print off a copy of the simpler more personal The Wake if you like for about $US15.00 these days. Postage would be extra, but only a few dollars as it is a slim book.

I expect the Hospice Bridge book will cost about $US25.00 including slow post, when finished around September 2013.

If you are interested, I can be contacted at johnfitzpatrick999@gmail.com

Buying Hospice Bridge

If anyone would like to buy the completed "Hospice Bridge - Reflections of Palliative Care 1983-2013" please advise. I expect it will be finished around September this year.

It's a modern text about current therapies and it also notes how little 'death' changes from century to century. It isn't a clinical text, because already there are too many of those. It is a book about reflecting upon a career spent in the clinical and the planning aspects, the remarkable people I've met, the good and awful things experienced, and about the future for palliative care, as I see it.

It also discusses the differences between Palliative Care and Euthanasia from someone who is a Palliative Care Nursing Expert and who also believes Euthanasia is a very good thing.