"Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite."
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"I'd rather die for speaking out, than to live and be silent."
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"The enemy will not perish of himself. Neither will the Chinese reactionaries nor the aggressive forces of U.S. imperialism in China step down from the stage of history of their own accord."
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"All the rest of the world uses the word electricity. They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!"
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"The Chinese say it's better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one."
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"Today, due to the massive Chinese population transfer, the nation of Tibet truly faces the threat of extinction, along with its unique cultural heritage of Buddhist spirituality."
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"Respect the gods and the devils but keep them at a distance"
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"The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved."
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"I feel pretty stupid that I don't know any foreign languages. I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese."
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"I work for a company that makes deceptively shallow serving dishes for Chinese restaurants."
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"The Chinese had accused the Tibetans of being terrorists, which is weird. A Tibetan terrorist is like an Amish hacker. It just doesn't fit."
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"The Chinese people have stood up."
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"We do see Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi and Chow Yun Fat, but it's very rare to see the Chinese male actor in Hollywood movies, which is something I take great umbrage with. You know, my son is Asian. He may want to direct one day; he may want to be an actor like his father - and I want that to be open to him."
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"What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty."
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"I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China."
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"When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family."
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"I only escaped from Tibet because I feared my people would resort to desperate violence if the Chinese took me as their prisoner."
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"To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. When you say something, say what you know. When you don't know something, say you don't know. That is knowledge."
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"He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed."
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"The whole end of speech is to be understood."
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