Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
MAO ZEDONGIn waking a tiger, use a long stick.
More Mao Zedong Quotes
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Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.
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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself.
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People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.
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Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
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All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
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In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
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On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
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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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I voted for you during your last election.
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Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
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We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
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