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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. Their civilization passes through phases but its basic characteristics remain the same. They yield, they bend to the wind, but they never break.

— Pearl S. Buck

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Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and so they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.

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Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless.

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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

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