Quote by Mao Zedong
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience. – Mao Zedong

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The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it. – Mao Zedong

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Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend. – Mao Zedong

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Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole. – Mao Zedong

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Change yourself, change your fortunes. – Proverb

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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, its the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead

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