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Quotes by Chinese Authors

"Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator."

"I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation."

"Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure."

"The Man who says he can, and the man who says he can not.. Are both correct?"

"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."

"The more laws and restrictions there are,The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations,The more thieves and robbers."

"Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education."

"How can you love people without encouraging them? And how can you be loyal to people without educating them."

"Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!"

"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."

"Ours is a colourful and diversified world. It is also a complex one."

"The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound."

"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."

"Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires."

"The Master said, "If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment."

"I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan."

"Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again."

"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."


"One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage."

"Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained."

"He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger."

"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."

"The best of all leaders is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him."

"Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires."


"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."


"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."

"Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed."
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