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Adeline Yen Mah

"You may be right in believing that if you study hard, one day you might become fluent in English. But you will still look Chinese, and when people meet you, theyâ€™ll see a Chinese girl no matter how well you speak English. Youâ€™ll always be expected to know Chinese, and if you donâ€™t, Iâ€™m afraid they will not respect you as much."

Source : Adeline Yen Mah (2009). “Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter”, p.151, Laurel Leaf

Adeline Yen Mah

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“Its so very important as to what a child watches on TV. I feel for every parent that knows this, and cares, because they only have control of the childs viewing to a certain point.”
“Curt Gowdy was a pioneer in our business and set the highest standards for everyone. His many contributions to ABC as host of 'American Sportsman' and other ABC Sports programs are indelible .”
“In Darwin's theory, you just have to substitute 'mutations' for his 'slight accidental variations' (just as quantum theory substitutes 'quantum jump' for 'continuous transfer of energy'). In all other respects little change was necessary in Darwin's theory...”
“The conviction that Christian doctrine matters for Christian living is one of the most important growth points of the Christian life.”
“It's important for everybody to have somewhere to go. Men and women need purpose [in life].”

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“The airline business is the biggest team sport in the world. When you're all consumed with fighting among yourselves, your opponents can run over you every day.”
“I believe the entertainment industry cannot portray on film people gunned down in cold blood, in living color, and not have it affect the attitudes and thoughts of some of the people who see it... I believe that the desensitizing effect of such media abuses on the hearts and souls of those who are exposed to them results in a partial fulfillment of the Savior's statement that 'because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold'.”
“A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.”

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