Chinese Quotes - Page 24

• The threat of China is not military. The threat of China is they can't be intimidated. Europe you can intimidate. When the US tries to get people to stop investing in Iran, European companies pull out, China disregards it. You look at history and understand why - they've been around for 4,000 years, they have contempt for the barbarians, they just don't give a damn.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Iran, Years

  Interview with Robert Trivers, seedmagazine.com. September 06, 2006.

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• I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix?

  Amy Tan

  Children, Character, Joy Luck Club

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.254, Penguin

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• And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood.

  Amy Tan

  Blood, Joy Luck Club, My Family

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club: A Novel”, p.222, Penguin

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• Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand 80 to 90 percent. Some say they understand none of it, as if she were speaking pure Chinese. But to me, my mother's English is perfectly clear, perfectly natural. It's my mother tongue. Her language, as I hear it, is vivid, direct, full of observation and imagery. That was the language that helped shape the way I saw things, expressed things, made sense of the world

  Amy Tan

  Mother, World, Shapes

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• People do not think in English or Chinese or Apache; they think in a language of thought. This language of thought probably looks a bit like all these languagesBut compared with any given language, mentalese must be richer in some ways and simpler in others.

  Steven Pinker

  Thinking, People, Looks

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• Apple is a wonderful company for its customers and investors. So, too, Pixar. (NeXT, not so much...) But Apple is also an engine of misery for its subcontracted Chinese workers.

  Eric Alterman

  Apples, Next, Misery

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• In response to a question concerning China's policy of compulsory abortion after the first child, Molly Yard responded, "I consider the Chinese government's policy among the most intelligent in the world"

  Gary Bauer

  Children, Intelligent, Government

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• When the Chinese told Google that they had to block sites or they couldn't do [business] in their country, they managed to figure out how to block sites.

  Christopher Dodd

  Country, Block, Google

  "Dodd slams Google over legislatoin" by Ted Johnson, variety.com. December 8, 2011.

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• I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.

  Charles de Lint

  Interesting, Thrive, Interesting Times

  "Someplace to be Flying". Book by Charles de Lint, 1998.

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• With a heavy load and a long journey

  Confucius

  Journey, Long, Heavy

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• To worry before the common people worries; To enjoy only after the people can enjoy.

  Fan Zhongyan

  People, Worry, Common

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• Respect the gods and the devils but keep them at a distance

  Confucius

  Distance, Devil

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• Justice for All in the World

  Confucius

  Justice For All, Justice, World

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• With strength to lift mountains and spirit to take on the World

  Xiang Yu

  Mountain, World, Spirit

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• Since the dawn of time every one will die,
  Let the history books note my death with loyalty at heart.

  Wen Tianxiang

  Loyalty, Book, Heart

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• Without going outside, you may know the whole world!

  Laozi

  World, May, Whole

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• What we do in our group is the opposite of the bad effects of globalization. We produce in Italy and in France and we sell to China, when usually it's the opposite.

  Bernard Arnault

  Opposites, Groups, France

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• Macau is democratic and free enough.. it's prosperous enough. Why do people need to do this?.

  Stanley Ho

  People, Needs, Enough

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• China had never had to deal in a world of countries of approximately equal strength, and so to adjust to such a world, is in itself a profound challenge to China, which now has fourteen countries on its borders, some of which are small, but can project their nationality into China, some of which are large, and historically significant, so that any attempt by Chinese to dominate the world, would involve in a disastrous for the peace of the world.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Profound, Challenges

  YouTube Channel "Fahad Barakat"/"The Munk Debates - Does the 21st Century Belong to China?", www.youtube.com. November 03, 2017.

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• Stop viewing China like it's the Cold War. Start viewing them as a modern member of the industrialized world.

  James Packer

  War, World, Cold

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• On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused, affairs go wrong. When affairs go wrong, courtesy and music droop, law and justice fail. And when law and justice fail them, a people can move neither hand nor foot. So a gentleman must be ready to put names in speech, to put words into deeds. A gentleman is nowise careless of words.

  Confucius

  Moving, Hands, Law

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• To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. When you say something, say what you know. When you don't know something, say you don't know. That is knowledge.

  Confucius

  True Knowledge, Knows

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• The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant.

  Confucius

  Army, Mind, May

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• The whole end of speech is to be understood.

  Confucius

  Speech, Ends, Understood

  Confucius (1909). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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• The spark from a tiny star can ignite the plains.

  Mao Zedong

  Stars, Sparks, Tiny

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