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We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.Mao Zedong
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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.Mao Zedong
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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.Mao Zedong
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I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.Mao Zedong
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I welcome Nixon's winning the election. Why? There is a deceptive side of him as well, but there is less of it. Do you believe it? He is accustomed to use hard tactics, but sometimes also soft ones. If he wishes to come to Beijing, please tell him he should do it secretly, not openly-just get on a plane and come.Mao Zedong
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Subjectivism, sectarianism and stereotyped Party writing are no longer the dominant styles, but merely gusts of contrary wind, ill winds from the air-raid tunnels.Mao Zedong
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The tactics we have derived from the struggle of the past three years are indeed different from any other tactics, ancient or modern, Chinese or foreign. With our tactics, the masses can be aroused for struggle on an ever-broadening scale, and no enemy, however powerful, can cope with us. Ours are guerrilla tactics.Mao Zedong
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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.Mao Zedong
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A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.Mao Zedong
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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.Mao Zedong
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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.Mao Zedong
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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 Zedong
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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.Mao Zedong
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Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.Mao Zedong
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Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.Mao Zedong
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So many green streams and blue hills, but to what avail ? This tiny creature left even Hua To powerless! Hundreds of villages choked with weeds, men wasted away; Thousands of homes deserted, ghosts chanted mournfully. Motionless, by earth I travel eighty thousand li a day, Surveying the sky I see a myriad Milky Ways from afar.Mao Zedong
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A person goes from a primary school of this kind all the way through to a university of the same kind, graduates and is reckoned to have a stock of learning. But all he has is book-learning; he has not yet taken part in any practical activities or applied what he has learned to any field of life.Mao Zedong
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My closest friend and brother - this world is lucky to have a great personality as Kim Il Sung. This causes my boundless happiness. The fate of the world revolution and the international communist movement are on your shoulders, Comrade Kim Il Sung. I wish you long life and good health.Mao Zedong
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Who are our enemies and who are our friends? This is the first and foremost question of a revolution and it is also the first and foremost question of the great Cultural Revolution.Mao Zedong
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The victory or defeat of the revolution can be determined only over a long period of time. If it is badly handled, there is always the danger of a capitalist restoration. All members of the party and all the people of our country must not think that after one, two, three, or four great cultural revolutions there will be peace and quiet.Mao Zedong
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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.Mao Zedong
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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.Mao Zedong
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An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.Mao Zedong
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The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.Mao Zedong
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Marxism comprises many principles, but in the final analysis they can all be brought back to a single sentence: it is right to rebel.Mao Zedong
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Why must there be a revolutionary party? There must be a revolutionary party because the world contains enemies who oppress the people and the people want to throw off enemy oppression. In the era of capitalism and imperialism, just such a revolutionary party as the Communist Party is needed.Mao Zedong
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Trust and rely on the masses; trust and rely on the PLA; trust and rely on the majority of the cadres.Mao Zedong
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