If you want to know…
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 More »
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