1. Asking very little from others and giving much to others, this is the style of pine trees. ——Tao Zhu

2. Everyone should abide by the laws of life, link personal destiny to the destiny of the nation, and put personal survival in the survival of the group. ——Ba Jin

3. Workers’ organization, discipline, perseverance and solidarity with workers all over the world are the guarantee for final victory. ——Lenin

4. Don’t be overly obsessed with laissez-faire freedom. Freedom that is not restricted at all has many harms and dangers. ——Krylov

5. A drop of water will never dry up until it is put into the ocean. A person can be most powerful only when he integrates himself with the collective cause. ——Lei Feng

6. The unity of the working class is the primary prerequisite for workers’ victory. ——Marx

7. The purpose of living is to do something for the whole. A drop of water has a moistening effect, but a drop of water must join the river and the sea to become a wave. ——Xie Juezai

8. Always feel that the land of the motherland is firmly under your feet, live with the collective, and remember that it is the collective that educates you. If you break away from the group that day, it will be the beginning of the end. ——Ostrovsky

9. Unanimity is powerful, but disputes are easy to conquer. ——Aesop

10. We have enjoyed great benefits from other people’s inventions, and we should also be happy to have the opportunity to serve others with any of our inventions; and we should do this voluntarily and do it generously. ——Franklin

11. In order to fight, we must twist all our forces into a rope and concentrate these forces on the same point of attack. ——Engels

12. Freedom cannot be bought by money, but it can be sold for money. ——Lu Xun

13. The weather is not as good as the right place, and the right place is not as good as the people. ——Meng Ke

14. A pile of sand is loose, but when mixed with cement, stones, and water, it becomes tougher than granite. ——Wang Jie

15. My views on many issues are very different from those of my predecessors, but I owe my knowledge to them and to those who first opened the way for this theory.

——Copernicus