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If we want to work out a policy for the present, we must examine the past and prepare for the future, discard the material and elevate the spirit, rely on the individual and exclude the mass.

Lu Xun

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Lu Xun
Age: 55 †
Born: 1881
Born: January 1
Died: 1936
Died: January 1
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