1,113 Quotes About China
- Author W S Maugham
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the soft airs of spring blew through the sketch into that sordid chamber, and for the beating of a pulse you were in touch with the eternal
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- Author Thomm Quackenbush
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I reserve magick for necessities, a bit like the good china. It has a time and a place, but eating peanut butter sandwiches off it each morning chips and devalues it.
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- Author Edwin John Dingle
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I am one of those who believe that in China we shall see arising a Government whose power will be paramount in the East, and upon the integrity of whose people will depend the peace of Europe. It is much to say. We shall not see it, but our children will. The Government is going to conquer the people.
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- Author Deng Xiaoping
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It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white as long as it catches mice.
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- Author Tom Standage
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An enormous semiofficial drug-smuggling operation was established in order to improve Britain's unfavorable balance of payments with China—the direct result of the British love of tea.
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- Author Bai Juyi
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On the seventh day of the Seventh-month, in the Palace of Long Life,We told each other secretly in the quiet midnight worldThat we wished to fly in heaven, two birds with the wings of one,And to grow together on the earth, two branches of one tree."Earth endures, heaven endures; some time both shall end,While this unending sorrow goes on and on for ever.
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- Author Mo Yan
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Dear brother," Number Two replied, "I can eat shit, I just don't like the taste.
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- Author Victor Robert Lee
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Beijing? Freedom? Oil and water.
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- Author Robert Black
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Any government which fears freedom of speech and expression, should fear the internet more.
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