Chinese Quotes - Page 25

• When there are duties to perform [true] servants and sons serve their labors.

  Confucius

  Son, Duty, Servant

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• Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it would differ so clearly from not so that there would be no need for argument.

  Zhuangzi

  Would Be, Needs, Argument

  "Zhuangzi". Discussion on Making All Things Equal", Book by Zhuangzi,

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• You can't get good Chinese takeout in China and Cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba. That's all you need to know about communism.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Cuba, Needs, Cigar

  "Give War a Chance". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1992.

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• You can't help but feel that the Chinese people are a subspecies.

  Steven Morrissey

  People, Helping, Feels

  "A protest party is a fine riposte to the poisonous parody Morrissey is now" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2018.

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• What becomes of the surplus of human life? It is either, 1st. destroyed by infanticide, as among the Chinese and Lacedemonians; or 2d. it is stifled or starved, as among other nations whose population is commensurate to its food; or 3d. it is consumed by wars and endemic diseases; or 4th. it overflows, by emigration, to places where a surplus of food is attainable.

  James Madison

  War, Balance, Population

  James Madison (1867). “1829-1836”, p.454

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• The Latin American has no tribe to fall back on, as the African does, no reliable judiciary to defend his rights as the European does, no social ideal or sacred constitution as the North American does, no pervasive mythology to soften life as it does in Asia, and no even an ideology to subscribe to, as does the Russian or Chinese. Without wealth, what is there left to him but his manhood, to be flaunted and defended at every occasion?

  Ted Simon

  Latin, Fall, Rights

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• In a couple of years, the Chinese will be seen as regular participants in international industry. Their companies have to report to shareholders as well as to the Chinese authorities. They need to make money, they have to be efficient.

  Daniel Yergin

  Money, Couple, Years

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• The chinese yunjae fans are very kind. They sent me and Yunho links to fanfictions. *giggles* They were 'fun' to read.

  Jaejoong

  Fun, Fans, Links

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• You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.

  Ella Maillart

  Boys, Climbing, Hiking

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• For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders.

  Bill Bradley

  Love, Hate, Long

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• One Chinese tweet is equal to 3.5 English tweets. ... Because of this, the Chinese really regard this microblogging as a media, not only a headline to media.

  Michael Anti

  Motivation, Inspiration, Media

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• Chinese national Internet policy is very simple: Block and clone.

  Michael Anti

  Block, Simple, Internet

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• [On Chinese Internet,] freedom is a targeted and precise window.

  Michael Anti

  Internet Freedom, Window, Precise

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• More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege.

  Michael Anti

  Rights, Freedom Of Speech, Privilege

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• I was in a prayer meeting yesterday. You gotta appreciate how scared, how scares folks on that side of the equation are. From their vantage point -- I really shouldnt say their -- cause its mine too, we are nearly at the end of time and from our vantage point, were going to be I think maybe Chinese Water torture is going to be the means the method, once Prop 8 gets instated and once preachers are held at gunpoint and forced to marry the homosexuals, Im pretty sure that that will be the signal for Jesus to come on back.

  Michelle Shocked

  Jesus, Prayer, Mean

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• It is a great mistake to say that the Chinese are not hospitable. A more graceful, hearty hospitality than that of the Chinese I have met in no land.

  Lottie Moon

  Mistake, Land, Hospitality

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• Supposing Catherine Lim was writing about me and not the prime minister... She would not dare, right? Because my posture, my response has been such that nobody doubts that if you take me on, I will put on knuckle-dusters and catch you in a cul de sac... Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no other way you can govern a Chinese society.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Hurt, Writing, Thinking

  "Lee Kuan Yew: The Man and His Ideas". Book by Fook Kwang Han, Sumiko Tan, and Warren Fernandez, 1998.

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• Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle-dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no way you can govern a Chinese society.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Hurt, Thinking, Trying

  "Lee Kuan Yew: The Man and His Ideas". Book by Han Fook Kwang, Warren Fernandez, Sumiko Tan, 1997.

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• There’s an old Chinese saying that I just love, and I believe it is so true. It goes like this: ‘The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.’

  Bob Parsons

  Believe, Temptation, Succeed

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• The United States is broke — fiscally, morally, intellectually — and the Fed has incited a global currency war Japan just signed up, the Brazilians and Chinese are angry, and the German-dominated euro zone is crumbling that will soon overwhelm it. When the latest bubble pops, there will be nothing to stop the collapse. If this sounds like advice to get out of the markets and hide out in cash, it is.

  David Stockman

  War, Japan, Advice

  "State-Wrecked: The Corruption of Capitalism in America" by David A. Stockman, www.nytimes.com. March 30, 2013.

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• Charlie Studd has written me a delightful letter... He thinks the Chinese language was invented by the devil to prevent the Chinese from ever hearing the Gospel properly.

  Ion Keith-Falconer

  Thinking, Devil, Letters

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• The Chinese nation has always pursued a life in harmony with other nations despite differences.

  Li Zhaoxing

  Differences, Harmony, Despite

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• Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.

  Phillip Lim

  Successful, Doctors, Parent

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• No one like crying, but tears water our souls. So, perhaps my thanks should be to allow you to cry for the Chinese women in my books.

  Xinran

  Book, Water, Soul

  Xinran (2010). “Sky Burial”, p.164, Random House

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• The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that all war was based on deception. Oscar Wilde said the same thing of romance.

  Marco Tempest

  War, Romance, Deception

  "The magic of truth and lies (and iPods)". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July 2011.

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