Without the fear of being surrounded by the boundless ocean, there is no courage to challenge the unknown, without the unease of wandering and uncertainty, and there is no perseverance to search hard.
Perhaps not so in South China, but she was early shrouded in philosophy on the plains of North China where she was born, and every effort to rush to the sea was sternly destroyed, perhaps not freed until now.
We've been on the ground too long.
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