The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Only the educated are free.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within.