"Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back."

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"Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back."

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"I normally don't eat junk food."

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"I remember when I was in college, I used to watch Julia Child's cooking show during dinner and joke with my roommates about becoming a TV chef."

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"I have a lot of cooking tools. In fact I have a whole drawer full of knives. Cooking tools, especially cutlery, are my toys."

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"I enjoy the quiet life."

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"I can represent my culture while helping not only the Chinese-American community, but also the community at large."

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"A lot of people don't enjoy their job, they may even hate it, but I am lucky enough to be able to make a living through my passion."

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"I also have a lot of preserved foods, things that will keep for a long time like dried fish, seaweed or lotus seed."

Time, Fish, Will

"Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful."

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"Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general."

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"A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

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"Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit."

Fran Lebowitz, American Journalist

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"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included."

Karl Marx, German Philosopher

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"He is now rising from affluence to poverty."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

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