Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.
MAO ZEDONGPeople like me sound like a lot of big cannons.
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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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Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.
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We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well.
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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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Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
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The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
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The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
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On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
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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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Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
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Women hold up half the sky.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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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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Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
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