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Anthology of Chinese Literature: Volume II: From the Fourteenth Century to the Present Day

by Cyril Birch

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Susan said: " A wonderful anthology and a chance to read outside of Western literature. The poems of Hun Yu are incredibly moving and evocative. I can speak for the quality of the translations since I am not familiar with the original works, but the translated wor ...more "

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“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
― Winston S. Churchill

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“Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be a good business person, that is to say, to make as much money as they possibly can by maximizing their revenue while minimizing the cost of producing whatever it is that they sell.”
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“The speed of modern life is an oppressive thing, and the corporate world is quick to punish those with an honest heart. Qualities such as ‘nice, honest, kind, happy, relaxed, sincere, innocent’ are frowned upon as weaknesses. Yet these values are the essence of a good person. Unfortunately, if you don’t keep the balance, they can be lost like sand through your fingers.”
― Fennel Hudson, Wild Carp: Fennel's Journal No. 4

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“Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there's a little utopia.”
― Margaret Atwood

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