Liu Shaoqi famous quotes

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  • Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.

  • What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

  • Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

  • No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

  • 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.

  • History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

  • 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.

  • If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.

  • 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.

  • I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.

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