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Quotes by Chinese Authors
"The best fighter is never angry."
"You must be one of the few people with a copy of that. I don't think they printed too many."
"I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child."
"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."
"The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming."
"We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression."
"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."
"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win."
"In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens."
"The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own."
"Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move."
"Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions."
"As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors."
"If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril."
"After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country."
"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."
"The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim."
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