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Quotes by Chinese Authors
"The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power."
"Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good."
"Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures."
"If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer."
"He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man."
"Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step."
"Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them."
"Since the end of the Cold War, hegemonism has become increasingly unpopular."
"Even if I were knocked down by one gunshot it wouldn't affect our democracy and I wasn't knocked down and I have great confidence in our democracy and in Taiwan and in the people of Taiwan."
"There is nothing more real than what cannot be seen and there is nothing more certain than what cannot be heard."
"When people see some things as beautiful,other things become ugly.When people see some things as good,other things become bad."
"For should the enemy strengthen his van, he will weaken his rear; should he strengthen his rear, he will weaken his van; should he strengthen his left, he will weaken his right; should he strengthen his right, he will weaken his left. If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak."
"He who searches for evil, must first look at his own reflection."
"Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances."
"That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions."
"On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people."
"We're still working out the details, but I'd be delighted to do the film. The problem at the moment is my busy schedule. Shooting on this film has been extended by a month, but I need to be in the U.S. by Dec. 20."
"When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled."
"You must be one of the few people with a copy of that. I don't think they printed too many."
"And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority."
"If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others."
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