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“The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.”
Source : "China’s Olympic Crossroads: Author Ma Jian on Beijing, Spectacle and Reality". Interview with Flora Zhang, beijing2008.blogs.nytimes.com. August 5, 2008. 
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“The case for my life... is this: that I have added something to knowledge, and helped others to add more”
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“Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half”
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“If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.”
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“I find it ironic and unfortunately because people are very vulnerable to populism now these days because they are desperate, we had really difficult times and we had difficult decisions to make. It is natural and it is logical to have people trying to not to vote for Syriza but to vote against the big parties that were in the Government for the last decade. So it is something that you can explain that way.”
Source : Source: www.sbs.com.au
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“It's easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that's the hard part.”
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“I have twin boys, 12, and a daughter, 17.”
