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Quotes by Chinese Authors
"The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools."
"At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want."
"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
"When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard."
"Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious."
"I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man."
"The world is getting so small. Young people are mobile; they want to travel around the world. When you travel around the world, you exchange culture, you want to make friends, you want to exchange things."
"The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long."
"We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view."
"Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories."
"We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes."
"I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river."
"There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited."
"All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten."
"For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction."
"The more I come to know about the outside world's perception of China, the more I feel there are all sorts of misunderstandings, and to a certain extent, people do not get the full picture from the media. A lot of foreigners have few opportunities to visit China, and a lot of Chinese people do not have the chance to go to Europe or to the West."
"The hoopla, the applause, the praises have never excited me."
"Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men."
"People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life."
"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake."
"I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan."
"Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment."
"Silence is a true friend who never betrays."
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