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Quotes by Chinese Authors
"Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed."
"When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce."
"The more laws and restrictions there are,The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations,The more thieves and robbers."
"The best of all leaders is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him."
"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you."
"No one can insult me, because I do not want respect.No one can defeat me, because I have given up the idea of winning.How can you defeat me? You can only defeat someone who wants to win."
"A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick. If, when you see the symptoms, you can tell, Your cure is quick.A sound man knows that sickness makes him sick and before he catches it his cure is quick."
"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."
"You can do almost anything with soup stock, it's like a strong foundation. When you have the right foundation, everything tastes good."
"He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger."
"When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder."
"The Man who says he can, and the man who says he can not.. Are both correct?"
"I know nothing about technology."
"A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman."
"I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan."
"American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt."
"Friends are the siblings God never gave us."
"People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live."
"Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces."
"As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century."
"Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here."
"The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound."
"Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires."
"The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself, it gives life to others as it transforms."
"When President Jiang Zemin visited India in 1996, the two sides decided that they would jointly build a constructive partnership of cooperation oriented towards the 21st century."
"A leader is bestWhen people barely know he existsOf a good leader, who talks little,When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,They will say, "We did this ourselves."
"Well, you know, if you get into the profession because you think you can make a lot of money, you can never become successful."
"Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness."
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