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To read too many books is harmful.

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An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

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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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Learn from the masses, and then teach them.

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Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.

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In waking a tiger, use a long stick.

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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.

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People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.

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There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.

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One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.

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Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.

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In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.

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In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

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The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.

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It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.

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Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon.

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The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher.

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Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.

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Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

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