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Ernest Ming-tak Leung 梁明德

19 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read

@JosephTorigian

One day I'll compile a Maoist-Dengist version of the "Keep Calm and Carry On" booklet. A hippy-ish translation of Deng would probably be this -

"Free your mind, get it done, come together and move on." (1978-12-13)

Actually brightens up my day.

Does @JosephTorigian approve?🤣

In fact, the original title of the speech already sounded hippy-ish. Deng was smoking all the time. Perhaps he was getting stoned?

dengxiaopingworks.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/ema…

In case anyone was wondering, "hippy" is a legit spelling of "hippie" - lexico.com/definition/hip…

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