Liu Shaoqi famous quotes
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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.
-- Liu Shaoqi -
ANOINT, v.t.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. As sovereigns are anointed by the priesthood, So pigs to lead the populace are greased good.
-- Liu Shaoqi
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Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.
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What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
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Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
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So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, theres never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.
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History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.
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I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
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If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.
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Kat had been picking things up since her third birthday, when Hamish and Angus's father took them all to the circus because he needed to "borrow" an elephant.
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I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.
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