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Famous quotes containing the words chinese and/or english:

    “One alone in a Chinese square
    confronted tanks, while others fled.
    He stood for freedom for us all,
    but few care now if he’s jailed or dead.”
    —Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)

    “He is no mystic, either, more than Newton or Arkwright or Davy, and tolerates none. Not one obscure line, or half line, did he ever write. His meaning lies plain as the daylight.... It has the distinctness of picture to his mind, and he tells us only what he sees printed in largest English type upon the face of things.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)