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• It is in order to really see, to see ever deeper, ever more intensely, hence to be fully aware and alive, that I draw what the Chinese call 'The Ten Thousand Things' around me. Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world. I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.

  Frederick Franck

  Drawing, Order, Discipline

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• I'm sick of people saying I hate blacks, women, and gays. It's false and slanderous. Everyone who knows me knows I hate the Chinese.

  Zach Braff

  Hate, Gay, People

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• In stark contrast with the views of the Greek philosophers and with those of the rest of western intellectuals to the present day, Chinese Taoist thought always defended individual liberty and laissez-faire while attacking the systematic and coercive use of violence typical of government.

  Jesus Huerta de Soto

  Government, Views, Greek

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• All kinds of mysterious phenomena exist in this world, but answers to most of them have come with advances in scientific knowledge. Love is the sole holdout-nothing can explain it. A Chinese writer by the name of Ah Cheng wrote that love is just a chemical reaction, an unconventional point of view that seemed quite fresh at the time. But if love can be controlled and initiated by means of chemistry, then novelists would be out of a job. So while he may have had his finger on the truth, I'll remain a member of the loyal opposition.

  Mo Yan

  Jobs, Mean, Love Is

  Mo Yan (2013). “Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out: A Novel”, p.597, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• It is not wise for Chinese to do things to artificially disrupt relations with the U.S.

  Jiang Zemin

  Wise, Relation

  "Jiang calls for restraint against U.S." by Willy Wo Lap Lam, www.cnn.com. June 14, 2001.

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• Streamlining the army with Chinese characteristics is the right choice for China in military modernization.

  Jiang Zemin

  Military, Army, Choices

  "China's army marks 70th anniversary". www.cnn.com. 1997.

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• The Chinese government thinks China and the U.S. should develop a constructive relationship of cooperation.

  Jiang Zemin

  Thinking, Government, Cooperation

  "China keeps watch on U.S. policy shifts" by Willy Wo-Lap Lam, www.cnn.com. October 2, 2001.

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• To me the soul of an Indian seemed as precious as the soul of an Englishman, and the Gospel as much for the Chinese as for the European.

  James Gilmour

  Soul, Missionary, Englishmen

  James Gilmour (1892). “James Gilmour of Mongolia: His Diaries, Letters and Reports”

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• Usually, the first thing a country does in the course of economic development is to introduce a lot of livestock. Our data are showing that this is not a very smart move and the Chinese are listening. They are realizing that animal-based agriculture is not the way to go.... We are basically a vegetarian species and should be eating a wide variety of plant food and minimizing our intake of animal foods.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Country, Smart, Moving

  "Huge Study Of Diet Indicts Fat And Meat" by Jane E. Brody, www.nytimes.com. May 08, 1990.

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• The Chinese government knows that what I am teaching is good and that I am teaching people to have high moral values.

  Li Hongzhi

  Teaching, Government, People

  Interview with William Dowell, content.time.com. May 10, 1999.

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• China and India are close neighbours linked by mountains and rivers and the Chinese and Indian peoples have enjoyed friendly exchanges for thousands of years.

  Li Peng

  Rivers, Years, Friendly

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• And I managed to arrange to get some research support and to stay in Hong Kong for another year and a half, interviewing people coming out of China, both Westerners and Chinese. And that was my first real research study on thought reform or so-called brainwashing.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Real, Years, People

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• It is shameful that there are so few women in science. [...] In China there are many, many women in physics. There is a misconception in America that women scientists are all dowdy spinsters. This is the fault of men. In Chinese society, a woman is valued for what she is, and men encourage her to accomplishments yet she remains eternally feminine.

  Chien-Shiung Wu

  Men, America, Faults

  "Queen of Physics". "Newsweek" no. 61, 20, May 20, 1963.

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• Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun; The Japanese don't care to, the Chinese wouldn't dare to; Hindus and Argentines sleep firmly from twelve to one, But Englishmen detest a siesta.

  Noel Coward

  Dog, Sleep, Mad

  'Mad Dogs and Englishmen' (1931 song)

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• The Chinese seemed to be mourning Mao in a heartfelt fashion. But I wondered how many of their tears were genuine. People had practiced acting to such a degree that they confused it with their true feelings.

  Jung Chang

  Fashion, Confused, People

  Jung Chang (2003). “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China”, p.518, Simon and Schuster

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• As she read the ten commandments for the first time, a Chinese woman said, "I don't see how anyone can very well get on without them."

  James Keller

  Time, Women, Firsts

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• There are all these new books out there portraying Asian mothers as scheming, callous, overdriven people indifferent to their kids' true interests. For their part, many Chinese secretly believe that they care more about their children and are willing to sacrifice much more for them than Westerners, who seem perfectly content to let their children turn out badly. I think it's a misunderstanding on both sides. All decent parents want to do what's best for their children. The Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to do that.

  Amy Chua

  Mother, Children, Believe

  "But Will It All Make 'Tiger Mom' Happy?" by Janet Maslin, www.nytimes.com. January 19, 2011.

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• When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.

  Maya Lin

  Letters, Littles, China

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 16, 2000.

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• In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language.

  Hu Shih

  Years, Students, Language

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• Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.

  Ezra Pound

  Latin, Thinking, Greek

  Ezra Pound (1950). “The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941”, p.339, New Directions Publishing

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• Words were written out for me phonetically. I learned to quack in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and German.

  Clarence Nash

  Language, Portuguese, Quacks

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• Once the concentration camps and the hell-holes of the world were in darkness. Now they are lit by the light of the Amnesty candle; the candle in barbed wire. When I first lit the Amnesty candle, I had in mind the old Chinese proverb: 'Better light a candle than curse the darkness.'

  Peter Benenson

  Light, Darkness, Mind

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• Twitter is most suitable for me. In the Chinese language, 140 characters is a novella.

  Ai Weiwei

  Character, Language, Suitable

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• Paul Bearer has more chins than a Chinese phone book!

  Jerry Lawler

  Book, Redneck, Phones

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and I] had for certain Chinese dishes . . . .

  Calvin Trillin

  Book, Phones, Way

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