“If human beings are able to take a fresh look at themselves as well as the universe and change their rigid mentalities, humankind will make a leap forward.”

—  Li Hongzhi

Zhuan Falun http://www.falundafa.org/book/eng/zflus.html

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Chinese religious leader and dissident 1951

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