"All of the Chinese people, the Asian people say, "Oh Yao Ming, you are all the Chinese, all of Asia's hopes." That's a lot of pressure. I'm just a basketball player."

-- Yao Ming

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“Rise with the hour for which you were made.”
“Forty-seven is nothing at all, nor is any age unless you're a cheese ...”

Source : Billie Burke, Cameron Shipp (2016). “With Powder on My Nose”, p.160, Pickle Partners Publishing
“The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage. [Lat., Nequicquam sapere sapientem, qui ipse sibi prodesse non quiret.]”
“When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.”
“Is beauty enhanced or adulterated by utility?”
“Three things about water affect almost all of cooking. First are the hydrogen bonds, which is why it has an incredibly high boiling point. Another is that it's a polar molecule, so that it dissolves a lot of things, and there are things that won't mix with it. And then there's how much energy it takes to heat water.”
“The world is solely occupied by a questioner and a philosopher.”
“Men scanning the surface count the wicked happy; they see not the frightful dreams that crowd a bad man's pillow.”

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