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If you open a window for fresh air, you have to expect some flies to blow in.

— Deng Xiaoping

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When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.

It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.

Hung Li China's Political Situation and the Power Struggle in Peking (1977)

A basic contradiction between socialism and the market economy does not exist.

The United States brags about its political system, but the [American] President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

Democracy and dictatorship of the proletariat are two parts of the same antithesis, and proletarian democracy is far superior to its capitalist counterpart.

Interview with Oriana Fallaci (1980)

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