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Old 10-13-2004, 12:37 PM   #1
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Allan:
Sword in Mao's poem:
http://www.iusb.edu/~journal/1999/Paper8.html

Towering aloft
Above the earth
Great Kunlun
You have witnessed all that was fairest
In the human world
As they fly across the sky, the three million dragons Of white jade
Freeze you with piercing cold
In the days of summer
Your melting torrents
Fill streams and rivers till they overflow
Changing men
Into fish and turtles
What man can pass judgment
On all the good and evil
You have done
These thousand autumns?
But today
I say to you, Kunlun
You don’t need your great height
You don’t need all that snow!
If I could lean on the sky
I would draw my sword
And cut you in three pieces
One I would send to Europe
One to America
And one we would keep in China.
Thus would a great peace
Reign through the world
For all the world would share our warmth and cold
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Old 10-14-2004, 06:08 PM   #2
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Optimistic...Mao foresaw the future two decades earlier:
" Marxists are not fortune-tellers. They should, and indeed can, only indicate the general direction of future developments and changes; they should not and cannot fix the day and the hour in a mechanistic way."
"It is like a ship far out at sea whose mast-head can already be seen from the shore; it is like the morning sun in the east whose shimmering rays are visible from a high mountain top; it is like a child about to be born moving restlessly in its mother's womb".

On heroism:
"We...have the spirit to fight the enemy to the last drop of our blood, the determination to recover our lost territory by our own efforts, and the ability to stand on our own feet in the family of nations".
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Old 10-15-2004, 02:58 PM   #3
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SB,

I am a little confused, again... I honestly can
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Old 10-23-2004, 02:33 PM   #4
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SOG also shares with the brand name of SOG knife. It's a compliment to say our SOG artists are sharp edge of a majestic sword.
How to sharpen your knife?
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Old 10-23-2004, 05:47 PM   #5
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I believe that everybody is sharpening there tools in the most effective way there is, namely by practising shape, edge and value in the tempo everyone feels that he/she can digest.

What this tool is meant for is not for me to say, because I don
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Old 10-25-2004, 09:33 AM   #6
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Allan:
Very impressed by your enthusiasm from Scandinavia.
What I thought that two sides of a knife to sharpen on are: spirit and matter. There are many other terms in the similar meaning: Painting is combination of idea and material.etc.
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