1,113 Quotes About China
- Author Jennifer Zeng
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Nobility is the motto of the noble-minded; the base use sordidness as a pass. Base souls cannot comprehend noble hearts and noble actions, nor can they believe that people can live magnanimous lives.
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- Author Dipa Sanatani
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Nowadays,” my tour guide says, “it is a man’s world here in China. But 6000 years ago, it was a woman’s world. Man and woman don’t need to get married. Man can just visit the woman’s house at night. When you have a baby, it doesn’t matter who the father is.
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- Author Paul Theroux
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I often had the feeling that it was the old immemorial Confucian family that had kept China orderly. Mao had attacked the family-the Cultural Revolution was intentionally an assault on the family system, when children were told to rat on their bourgeois parents. But that had faltered and failed. The family had endured
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- Author Jesmyn Ward
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Make them know that even though they want to they can't live without you.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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To most Americans, a dog is a potential mate. To some Chinese, a dog is potential meat.
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- Author Ma Jian
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Beauty can make a woman rich, but if she relies solely on her looks to get by, she'll always remain under a man's thumb.
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- Author Kailin Gow
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I was born to create things and solve problems. It’s in our blood. Ask my brother Stephen. Our lineage goes back to ancient China when our ancestors were the first to invent firepower, the kite, and even noodles.” - Auntabelle, Amazon Lee and the Ancient Undead of Rome by Kira G. and Kailin Gow
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- Author Hugh Baker
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There is a rope that stretches from Infinity to Infinity, passing over a razor which is the Present. If the rope is cut, both ends fall away from the middle and the rope is no more. If the man alive now dies without heir, the whole continuum of ancestors and unborn descendants dies with him... His existence as an individual is necessary but insignificant beside his existence as the representative of the whole
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- Author Beau Sides
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Wealth gives you options, and your decisions about what to do with your options say much about your character.
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