Võ Nguyên Giáp: The Vietnamese army was then weak in all respects and was destitute of everything... (But) in provoking hostilities, the aggressive colonialists had alienated a whole nation. And, indeed, the whole Vietnamese nation, the entire Vietnamese people rose against them. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3950
Xi Jinping: For communists, self-cultivation is not about sitting in meditation with our face toward the wall; rather, we strengthen self-cultivation when we engage in the social practices of remaking the world. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3951
Tolstoy: Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3952
Jorge Luis Borges: Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope, the telescope, are extensions of his sight; the telephone is the extension of his voice; then we have the plow and the sword, extensions of the arm. But the book is something else altogether: the book is an extension of memory and imagination. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3953
Jorge Luis Borges: I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3954
Jorge Luis Borges: I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3955
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