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it doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black; as long as it catches mice it's a good cat (variant of a Sichuanese saying used in a speech by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平｜邓小平 in 1962, usually associated with his economic reforms starting in 1978, in which pragmatism was favored over ideological purity)
the Four Cardinal Principles enunciated by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平｜邓小平 in 1979: to uphold the socialist road, the dictatorship of the proletariat, the leadership of the CCP, and Maoism and Marxism-Leninism
science and technology is the number one productive force (from a 1978 speech by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平｜邓小平 introducing the Four Modernizations 四個現代化｜四个现代化)
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