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Confucius would give his seat to an old woman. Communist cadres, on the other hand, took the best seats and called it a cultural revolution.
Gerald Vizenor
Best
Woman
Old
Revolution
Old Woman
Other
Took
Would
Give
His
Cultural
Hand
Confucius
Communist
Seat
Seats
Particularly since the computerization of the world, the impact of media has grown enormously. The printed books and the printed media have become less important. Why should somebody read Laozi or Confucius if he can Google?
Helmut Schmidt
World
Somebody
Important
Google
Become
Books
Impact
He
Since
Particularly
Read
Printed
Confucius
Should
Less
Media
Grown
Why
If Confucius wasn't born, the long night would have no bright lamp.
Mencius
Long
Lamp
Would
Born
Confucius
Bright
Night
Maybe I am a prophet. I really hope one day there will come Confucius, Muhammad, Buddha and Christ to see me. And we will sit at a table, taking tea and eating some brownies.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Hope
Day
Me
Christ
Will
Sit
Tea
One Day
Table
See
Some
Eating
Prophet
Buddha
Taking
Come
Am
Maybe
Confucius
Really
Muhammad
Confucius - or Kongzi, which means Master Kong - was not born to power, but his idiosyncrasies and ideas made him the Zelig of the Chinese classics.
Evan Osnos
Made
Power
Master
Born
Classics
Ideas
Him
Idiosyncrasies
Kong
His
Which
Chinese
Confucius
Means
I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer and Shakespeare and Victor Hugo are looking over their shoulders.
F. Sionil Jose
Looking
France
Crippled
Ghosts
Shakespeare
Writers
Chaucer
Feel
Over
Unsure
Hugo
China
Victor
Confucius
Themselves
Shoulders
England
Imagine
The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.
Karen Armstrong
Christ
Spirituality
First
Before
Rule
First-Person
Bedrock
Years
Person
The Golden Rule
Golden
Golden Rule
Which
Confucius
Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.
Pearl S. Buck
Life
Old
Think
Earth
Angels
Absorb
Like
Am
Wonder
Heaven
Cannot
Confucius
I didn't learn Chinese to write 'Confucius.' That would've been a monumental task. I have three friends who can translate Chinese text for me; all three helped me with my research on Confucius. They are acknowledged in my acknowledgements in the book.
Russell Freedman
Me
Book
Three
Research
Monumental
Write
Learn
Been
Text
Friends
Task
Acknowledged
Chinese
Confucius
Translate
Who
Helped
The Chinese government has been clear in its goal and purpose for creating and expanding Confucius Institutes throughout the country, namely to distort academic discourse on China, threaten and silence defenders of human rights, and create a climate intolerant of dissent or open discussion.
Seth Moulton
Government
Silence
Rights
Country
Human Rights
Dissent
Intolerant
Distort
Has-Been
Threaten
Purpose
Throughout
Open
Clear
Institute
Namely
Academic
Climate
Discourse
Been
Goal
Expanding
Discussion
Human
China
Chinese
Chinese Government
Confucius
Create
Creating
Defenders
When the people share everything in the state, then will we truly reach the goal of the Min Sheng Principle, which is Confucius' hope of a 'great commonwealth.'
Sun Yat-sen
Hope
Great
People
Will
State
Everything
Share
Reach
Principle
Goal
Truly
Which
Commonwealth
Confucius
Then
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