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The Chinese people have only family and clan solidarity; they do not have national spirit...they are just a heap of loose sand...Other men are the carving knife and serving dish; we are the fish and the meat.

— Sun Yat-sen China as a Heap of Loose Sand (1924)

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In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find.

To understand is difficult; to act is easy.

China is now suffering from poverty, not from unequal distribution of wealth. Where there are inequalities of wealth, the methods of Marx can, of course, be used; a class war can be advocated to destroy the inequalities. But in China, where industry is not yet developed, Marx's class war and dictatorship of the proletariat are impracticable.

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