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

— Ba Jin Pioneers of Modern China : Understanding the Inscrutable Chinese (2005)

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Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.

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Nobody would say the cowshed was heaven and nobody would say the inhuman torture of so many victims be called a revolution of the proletariat.

Pioneers of Modern China : Understanding the Inscrutable Chinese (2005)

He had never disagreed with anyone in his life, no matter how unfairly they may have treated him.

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