Chinese - Leader | December 26, 1893 - September 9, 1976
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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To read too many books is harmful.
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Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
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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.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
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The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
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I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
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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.
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Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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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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People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.
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