If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself.
MAO ZEDONGHe thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
More Mao Zedong Quotes
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Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
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Women hold up half the sky.
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There is in fact no such thing as art for art’s sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
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All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
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In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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All reactionaries are paper tigers.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
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Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
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Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
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Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
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In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
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