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• Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and the discovery of the possibility to find out causal relationships by systematic experiment (during the Renaissance). In my opinion, one has not to be astonished that the Chinese sages have not made these steps. The astonishing thing is that these discoveries were made at all.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Discovery, Two

  Letter to J.S. Switzer on April 23, 1953. "The Scientific Revolution: A Historiographical Inquiry". Book by H. Floris Cohen, p. 234, 1994.

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• The Chinese used the symbol of tai chi, the undifferentiated reality - no separation, no left and right.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reality, Taoism, Separation

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• There's no easy way to say this, so I'€™ll just say it: We're no longer No. 1. Today, we're No. 2. Yes, it's official. The Chinese economy just overtook the United States economy to become the largest in the world. For the first time since Ulysses S. Grant was president, America is not the leading economic power on the planet.

  Stephen F. Hayes

  America, Ulysses's Grant, President

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• Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity.

  Ai Weiwei

  Meaningful, Country, Art

  "China's art world does not exist" by Ai Weiwei, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2012.

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• His mother and father were agnostics, and Jim respected devout Christians in the same way that he respected people who were members of the Graf Zeppelin Club or shopped at the Chinese department stores, for their mastery of an exotic foreign ritual. Besides, those who worked hardest for others, like Mrs. Philips and Mrs. Gilmour and Dr. Ransome, often held beliefs that turned out to be correct.

  J. G. Ballard

  Christian, Mother, Father

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• The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Funny, Humor, Law

  Oliver Goldsmith (1794). “The Citizen of the World Or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friend in the East”, p.33

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• Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  School, Math, United States

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• On what basis should our policy rest? It should rest on our own strength, and that means regeneration through one's own efforts. We are not alone; all the countries and people in the world opposed to imperialism are our friends. Nevertheless, we stress regeneration through our own efforts. Relying on the forces we ourselves organize, we can defeat all Chinese and foreign reactionaries.

  Mao Zedong

  Country, Stress, Struggle

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.101, Lulu.com

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• To win countrywide victory is only the first step in a long march of ten thousand li.... The Chinese revolution is great, but the road after the revolution will be longer, the work greater and more arduous. This must be made clear now in the Party. The comrades must be helped to remain modest, prudent and free from arrogance and rashness in their style of work. The comrades must be helped to preserve the style of plain living and hard struggle.

  Mao Zedong

  Party, Struggle, Winning

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.101, Lulu.com

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• There is a phrase in Chinese, 'Resolve is victory.'

  Yao Ming

  Attitude, Victory, Phrases

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• JOSS-STICKS- Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Religion, Sacred, Sticks

  Ambrose Bierce (1906). “The Cynic's Word Book”, p.207, Lulu.com

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• Correct. President Wallis was the president before the Chinese assault and continued leading the United States throughout the war

  Kiera Cass

  War, President, United States

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• 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.

  Hu Shih

  Religious, Europe, India

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• Gandhi has more recently recognized the need for continuance of British, American and Chinese efforts in India and has suggested that these troops might remain by agreement with some new Indian Government.

  Stafford Cripps

  Government, Agreement, Effort

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• Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air.

  Helmut Jahn

  Air, People, Care

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• Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.

  Iris Chang

  Country, Struggle, Rights

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• I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago.

  Rand Beers

  Eight, United States, Venture

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• The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or "no fuss."

  Alan Watts

  Real, Masters

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• To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Rivers, Heaven, Fancy

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “The Romance of the Milky Way And Other Studies & Stories”, p.16, tredition

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• When I was growing up I had three wishes. I wanted to be a Lindbergh-type hero, learn Chinese, and become a member of The Algonquin Round Table.

  John F. Kennedy

  Growing Up, Hero, Wish

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• A Chinese paleontologist lectures around the world saying that recent fossil finds in his country are inconsistent with the Darwinian theory of evolution. His reason: The major animal groups appear abruptly in the rocks over a relatively short time, rather than evolving gradually from a common ancestor as Darwin's theory predicts. When this conclusion upsets American scientists, he wryly comments: "In China we can criticize Darwin but not the government. In America you can criticize the government but not Darwin."

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Country, Animal, Theory Of Evolution

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• Chinese landscape paintings often include tiny figures - as if to emphasize the grandeur of nature of which humankind is one small part. Think of the world in these terms, as larger in scale than the human. This is a healthy corrective to the commonplace view that people own the land, which exists to serve their purposes. Think big and live small.

  Barbara Ann Kipfer

  Thinking, Views, Land

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• Comrade Mao, whether he was crossing 'a sea of surging waves' or scaling 'a mountain pass impregnable as iron' always held unwaveringly to his course, setting a shining example for the Chinese Communist Party.

  Xi Jinping

  Party, Sea, Iron

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• A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival Chen, a Chinese schoolmaster in Vietnam. This extraordinary book made me weep. Read it.

  Janice Y. K. Lee

  Book, Stories, Vietnam

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• Behind the mask of diplomatic and political cooperation and partnership with the United States and Europe, the current Russian leaders are following the strategy of their predecessors and working towards a 'New World Order'. When the right moment comes the mask will be dropped and the Russians with Chinese help will seek to impose their system on the West on their own terms.

  Anatoliy Golitsyn

  Order, Europe, Leader

  Anatoliy Golitsyn (1995). “The Perestroika Deception: Memoranda to the Central Intelligence Agency”

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