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Quotes by Chinese Authors
"Who wishes to fight must first count the cost."
"Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun."
"No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India."
"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."
"As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn't matter if it's Chinese, Japanese, anything."
"I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study."
"There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent."
"Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general."
"The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it."
"In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared."
"Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another."
"After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films."
"In the spring and summer of 1989, a serious political disturbance took place in China."
"Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth."
"The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you've got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Also, if you don't give up, you still have a chance. And, when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength."
"If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer."
"We sincerely hope that south Asian countries will respect and live in amity with each other, and achieve common development, and that south Asia will enjoy peace, stability and prosperity."
"My main mission when I became Prime Minister, was to keep Singapore going and Singapore has been kept going. So, I'm happy with what I've done for Singapore."
"I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes."
"Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small."
"Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible."
"The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth. The named is the mother of ten thousand things. Ever desireless, one can see the mystery. Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations. These two spring from the same source but differ in name; this appears as darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gate to all mystery."
"As people grow up and they want more freedom, it's on an individual basis, children want to have more freedom, you've got to allow that, so how do you balance it. I would say let it evolve, move as quickly or slowly as people would like to move."
"Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions."
"Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day."
"Every battle is won before it is fought."
"I know nothing about technology."
"I can represent my culture while helping not only the Chinese-American community, but also the community at large."
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