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We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view. ↗

— Mao Zedong

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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history. ↗

— Mao Zedong

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To read too many books is harmful. ↗

— Mao Zedong

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I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever. ↗

— Mao Zedong

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Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work. ↗

— Mao Zedong

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Learn from the masses, and then teach them. ↗

— Mao Zedong

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But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark. ↗

— John Updike

#imagery #inspirational #love #lovers #metaphor

Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it. ↗

— Mao Zedong

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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#decisive #factor #important #important factor #man

According to well-known electrodynamic laws, an electron moving in a magnetic field is acted upon by a force which runs perpendicular to the direction of motion of the electron and to the direction of the magnetic field, and whose magnitude is easily determined. ↗

— Pieter Zeeman

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