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Quotes by Chinese Authors
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."
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"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
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"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
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"It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get."
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"When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved."
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"When I retire or pass away, I will be able to look back and say that this has been an exciting life. That's all that matters."
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"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures."
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"It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used."
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"Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit."
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"Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous."
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"There are two types of Chinese growing up in America. One is the kind that does really well in school, with thick, thick glasses. And the other is involved with the gangs."
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"War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun."
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"The ads all call me fearless, but that's just publicity. Anyone who thinks I'm not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am."
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"The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship."
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"Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks."
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"Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt."
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"Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength."
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"It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before."
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"The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound."
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"If you want to investigate, we will be willing to assist."
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"Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law."
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"I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D."
Work,
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"Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work."
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