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You have your thoughts and I have mine. This is the fact and you can't change it even if you kill me.

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Shouted out at the end of a televised public humiliation in the People's Stadium of Shanghai, during the "Cultural Revolution" (20 June 1968), as quoted in Pioneers of Modern China : Understanding the Inscrutable Chinese (2005) by Khoon Choy Lee

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We cannot forget what had happened and history should not repeat itself.

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