Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious. - Deng Xiaoping

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Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step. - Deng Xiaoping

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Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ― Coco Chanel

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The ethereal past had blinded him, and the highest happiness he could dream was a return to it. ― E.M. Forster

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The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering. ― Ben Okri

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Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return. ― Leigh Bardugo

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To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to give, we seek romantic relationships. We believe these relationships, more than any other, will rescue and redeem us. True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved. ― bell hooks

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The minority yields to the majority! - Deng Xiaoping

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Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.

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The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves. - Deng Xiaoping

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