"In a suitable temperature, an egg becomes a chicken, and there are no chickens born of stones."
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"Let a hundred flowers bloom."
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"Communism has nothing to do with love. Communism is an excellent hammer which we use to destroy our enemy."
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"To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it."
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"Apart from their other characteristics, the outstanding thing about China's 600 million people is that they are “poor and blank”. This may seem a bad thing, but in reality it is a good thing. Poverty gives rise to the desire for changes, the desire for action and the desire for revolution. On a blank sheet of paper free from any mark, the freshest and most beautiful characters can be written; the freshest and most beautiful pictures can be painted."
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"We Communists are like seeds and the people are like the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them."
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"Power comes from the muzzle of a gun, those that have the guns have the power, those that have the power dictate what type of government their shall be."
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"The first law of war is to preserve ourselves and destroy the enemy."
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"Whoever has an army has power and that war decides everything."
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"Women hold up half the sky."
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"The agricultural co-operative movement has been a severe ideological and political struggle from the very beginning. No cooperative can be established without going through such a struggle. Before a brand-new social system can be built on the site of the old, the site must be swept clean. Invariably, remnants of old ideas reflecting the old system remain in people's minds for a long time, and they do not easily give way. After a co-operative is established, it must go through many more struggles before it can be consolidated. Even then, the moment it relaxes its efforts it may collapse."
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"That has less significance than a dog's fart."
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"We should support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports"
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"Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent."
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"The comrades throughout the Party must take all this fully into account and be prepared to overcome all difficulties with an indomitable will and in a planned way. The reactionary forces and we both have difficulties. But the difficulties of the reactionary forces are insurmountable because they are forces on the verge of death and have no future. Our difficulties can be overcome because we are new and rising forces and have a bright future."
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"Not just in China, but everywhere in the world without exception, one either leans to the side of imperialism or the side of socialism. Neutrality is mere camouflage; a third road does not exist."
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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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"Our country and all the other socialist countries want peace; so do the peoples of all the countries of the world. The only ones who crave war and do not want peace are certain monopoly capitalist groups in a handful of imperialist countries that depend on aggression for their profits."
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"When we look at thing, we must examine its essence and treat its appearance merely as an usher at the threshold, we must, once we cross the threshold, grasp the essence of the thing."
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"Those experienced in work must take up the study of theory and must read seriously; only then will they be able to systematize and synthesize their experience and raise it to the level of theory, only then will they not mistake their partial experience for universal truth and not commit empiricist errors."
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