Famous Quotes on China

 From the blog Wandering China 

“Let China sleep, for when she awakes, she will shake the world.” -Napoleon
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“China is a civilization pretending to be a nation” - Michael Ledeen
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“If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.” - Singapore’s Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew evoking the ghost of Deng Xiaoping whilst endorsing the Tiananmen Square massacre, Straits Times, Aug 17, 2004
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“It doesn’t matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.” – Deng Xiaoping
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“A man has no future if he does not read books, nor does a nation.” Wen Jiabao, 2010

“Only when the masses are reassured, can the country be at peace. Only when the country is at peace, can the leaders be relieved.” Wen Jiabao, 2008
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“If the head of a school is changing every two or three years, that school could never be excellent.” Wen Jiabao
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“You only have to put a few students from Peking or Qinghua University in classrooms to deter local students from dozing off or snacking,” Taiwan’s Commonwealth magazine publisher Kao Hsi-chun, 2010
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and something not so famous…
“China is as wide as its peripheries. No one can represent the thoughts and feelings of 1.4 billion people of 56 ethnicities fairly in one statement.” Bob Tan