In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
MAO ZEDONGAll genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
More Mao Zedong Quotes
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We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
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Women hold up half the sky.
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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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A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
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Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
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To read too many books is harmful.
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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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The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
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In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
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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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He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
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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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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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The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn’t.
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