Fierce-browed, I coolly defy a thousand pointing fingers; head bowed, I willingly serve as a children's ox.
Hope is like a path in the countryside: originally there was no path - yet, as people walk all the time in the same spot, a way appears.
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Lu Xun
Lu Xun (1881-1936) is universally recognized as the father of modern Chinese literature. His short stories - 'A Madman's Diary,' 'The True Story of Ah Q,' 'Kong Yiji' - combined fierce social criticism with literary innovation, attacking the feudal traditions he believed were destroying China. No other writer has had comparable influence on modern Chinese cultural consciousness.
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Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
-- Bruce Lee
Either explode in silence, or perish in silence.
-- Lu Xun
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
-- Henrik Ibsen
All human wisdom is summed up in two words: wait and hope.
-- Alexandre Dumas
Those who live are those who fight.
-- Victor Hugo
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe