"Never hesitate to ask a lesser person."
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"The spark from a tiny star can ignite the plains."
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"Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication."
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"Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire."
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"When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker."
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"There are photographers who push for war because they make stories. They search for a Chinese who has a more Chinese are than the others and they end up finding one. They have him take a typically Chinese pose and surround him with chinoiseries. What have they captured on their film? A Chinese? Definitely not: the idea of the Chinese."
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"Even though I believe we should promote Chinese medicine, I personally do not believe in it. I don't take Chinese medicine."
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"I think the Chinese will say the hell with you and pull their money out of the United States. That's the end of our wars."
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"Chinese cooking is noisy - a multitasking activity that requires constant vigilance. There is no downtime."
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"At Berkshire Hathaway we do not like to compete against Chinese manufacturers."
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"The World is Large - Its beauty indescrible."
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"What you do not wish upon yourself, extend not to others."
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"As the Chinese will tell you, history depends on your point of view."
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"Millions of Germans had absolute faith in Hitler. Millions of Russians had faith in Stalin. Millions of Chinese had faith in Mao. Billions have had faith in imaginary gods."
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"Often, the truly great and valuable lessons we learn in life are learned through pain. That's why they call it "growing pains." It's all about yin and yang. And that's not something you order off column A at your local Chinese restaurant."
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"Our western mind lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept, not even a name for "the union of opposites through the middle path", that most fundamental item of inward experience which could respectably be set against the Chinese concept of Tao."
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"When there are duties to perform [true] servants and sons serve their labors."
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"The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant."
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"It was Chinese music. I couldnt understand it, but it had a good beat to it."
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"To know you have enough is to be rich."
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