If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself.... All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience. - Mao Zedong [Tse-tung] (1893 - 1976): Speech, July 1937, Yanan [Yenan], China
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梨の実の味が知りたいのなら、自分の手でもぎ取って食べてみなければならない……。本物の知識というものはすべて、直接体験する中で生ずる。 - 毛沢東 (1893 - 1976): 1937年７月、中国延安での演説
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