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The experience I gained taught me that one must be good at making use of contradictions of all kinds to legalize the illegal such as the rules of the soldiers’ committees which, through our work, were adopted as the objectives of the division school.

— Peng Dehuai

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When soldiers become conscious of what they are doing and are organized, they constitute a mighty force.

I was prepared to destroy myself, but I would never do anything to harm the people’s army led by the Party.

History is always moving ahead in a wavelike fashion, and the people of today outpace those of yesterday in their continuous forward advance.

China could only resist foreign aggression and develop its industry by instituting democracy and unifying the country.

Don’t believe the good words of a man uttered in ordinary times; his action in an emergency will tell what sort of a man he is.

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