林彪是毛的国防部长，也一度是他钦点的接班人。正是林彪想出了把领袖的观点编纂成容易理解的形式。林彪知道中国人民解放军的士兵大都没受过良好教育，至多也只能粗略理解毛的政治观点，便要求解放军的报纸每天配发毛的简短语录。这些语录应当被浓缩为格言的长度，然后在部队军官组织的晚间学习中进行分析。

The newspaper feature proved so successful that the army's General Political Department put together a book, with Mao's thoughts organized by topic into 30 chapters. By the time the canonical third edition came out in 1965, the anthology ran to 270 pages, with 33 chapters and 427 quotations. The presses ran overtime to churn out enough copies to put in the hands of every Chinese citizen.

报纸登出的语录大受欢迎，于是解放军总政治部将它们集结成册，把毛的思想按主题编纂为30章。1965年出版了权威的第三版，页数是270页，共有33章，收录427条语录。印刷厂加班加点，让中国人可以人手拥有一册。

By 1967, about 700 million books had been printed, and it has been estimated that five billion copies had been printed by the end of the 20th century, with editions in 52 languages. Mr. Schiller has copies in all but two of them, Pashto and Turkish. A Braille edition is included in the exhibition.

1967年，《语录》的印数已经达到7亿本，到20世纪末，总印数估计在50万册，共有52个语言的版本，希勒先生手中只差普什图语版和土耳其语版，展览中还收录有盲文版。

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