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Mencius. Mengzi. c. 300 BC, bk. 6.

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Mencius. Mencius, translated by D. C. Lau. Penguin Classics, 2005, bk. 6.

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Mencius. Mengzi. c. 300 BC, bk. 6.

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Mencius. Mencius, translated by D. C. Lau. Penguin Classics, 2005, bk. 6.

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Mencius. Mengzi. c. 300 BC, bk. 5.

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Mencius. Mencius, translated by D. C. Lau. Penguin Classics, 2005, bk. 5.

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Zedong, Mao. Combat Liberalism. 1937.

Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.

Sima Qian

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Suma Quin. Written sometime around c. 110 BC.

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Suma Qian. Records of the Grand Historian of China, translated by Burton Watson. Vol. 2, Columbia University Press, 1961, ch. 118.

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something-always, in a word, seeking.

Bodhidharma

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Bodhidharma. The Zen Teaching of Bodhidarma. c. 550.

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Bodhidharma. The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma, translated by Red Pine. North Point Press, 1989.

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Ching Hao. Pi-fa-chi [Notes on Brushwork]. c. 925.

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Ching Hao. Ching Hao's Pi-fa-chi: A Note on the Art of Brush, translated by Kiyohiko Munakata. Artebus Asiae Publishers, 1974.

I want to make work so people can be moved by a sense of the possible.

Zhang Huan

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Huan, Zheng. "Interview with Zhang Huan." Interviewed by Roselee Goldberg. Pilgrimage to Santiago, 2000.