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Quotes by Chinese Authors
"What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?"
"Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again."
"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness."
"My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache."
"Multi- polarisation has become an inevitable trend in the process of shaping a global political pattern and has been widely welcomed by the international community as it reflects the common interests and aspiration of the overwhelming majority of countries."
"Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires."
"I remember when I was in college, I used to watch Julia Child's cooking show during dinner and joke with my roommates about becoming a TV chef."
"I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors."
"We sincerely ask the Beijing authorities across the Strait to view the election result from a positive perspective, to accept the democratic decision of the Taiwanese people."
"Simplicity, patience, compassion.These three are your greatest treasures.Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.Patient with both friends and enemies,you accord with the way things are.Compassionate toward yourself,you reconcile all beings in the world."
"Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary military service in replacement of the current compulsory military service."
"Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate."
"I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study."
"The most important thing is to make the technology inclusive - make the world change. Next, pay attention to those people who are 30 years old, because those are the internet generation. They will change the world; they are the builders of the world."
"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."
"How can you love people without encouraging them? And how can you be loyal to people without educating them."
"Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge."
"I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and become part of our daily lives in Taiwan."
"Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years."
"In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements."
"A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words."
"Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education."
"There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest."
"Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy."
"One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage."
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