bù​guǎn​bái​māo​hēi​māo, zhuō​zhù​lǎo​shǔ​jiù​shì​hǎo​māo

pragmatism

不管白猫黑猫,捉住老鼠就是好猫 (不管白貓黑貓,捉住老鼠就是好貓) bù​guǎn​bái​māo​hēi​māo, zhuō​zhù​lǎo​shǔ​jiù​shì​hǎo​māo
pragmatism
it doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black; as long as it catches mice it's a good cat (Deng Xiaoping's famous saying favoring pragmatism over ideological purity)

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