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...first Congress: but it was perfectly natural to put them forward in a situation when the government's lack of cooperation (not to mention their deliberate campaign of lies in the mass media) endangered the very basis of the Polish reform. Who does not march forward, marches back: this proverb is particularly true in Communist countries, in which only the methods of faits accomplis and of constant pressure can be used by society in negotiations with such an unreliable partner as the government...
Your article on books promoting the cult of ailurophobia, the hatred or fear of cats [Sept. 21], reminds me of the Chinese proverb: "He whodislikes the cat was in his former life...
...Indian women to function in a dichotomous position," she said, later citing the Iroquios proverb, "One does not long remain with feet in two canoes...
...difficulties and that the two countries are bound to turn hostile again. And if Washington sells Peking any arms, the Taiwanese warn, beware the long-range consequences. C.J. Chen, director of the North American affairs section of the foreign ministry in Taipei, put it succinctly by quoting a Chinese proverb: " 'If you feed a tiger, sooner or later it will eat you as well...
...Chinese proverb...