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Quotes by Chinese Authors
"When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better."
"My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic."
"The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming."
"The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development."
"We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world."
"I believe that the best cameraman is one who recognizes the source, the story, as the basis of his work."
"The best fighter is never angry."
"Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle."
"For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour."
"Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world."
"I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child."
"What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty."
"In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding."
"All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia."
"He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough."
"Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy."
"As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors."
"This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace."
"The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own."
"After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic."
"You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder."
"There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare."
"After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country."
"We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression."
"If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character.If there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home.If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nations.When there is order in the nations, there will peace in the world."
"Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens."
"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win."
"Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown."
"Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others."
"The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution."
"If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants."
"Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations."
"Lao Tzu "The key to growth is the introductionof higher dimensions of consciousnessinto our awareness."
"Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature."
"If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near."
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