“What we need is an enthusiastic but calm state of mind, and intense but orderly work.”

— Mao Zedong

"Problems of Strategy in China's Revolutionary War" https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/ch22.htm, (December 1936), Selected Works, Vol. I, p. 211.

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