"I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life."

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Martha Beck

#Philosophy Quotes #Chinese Quotes #Asian Quotes

“The increase in the amount of heat in the oceans amounts to 17 x 10^22 Joules over the last 30 years. That is so much energy it is equivalent to exploding a Hiroshima bomb every second in the ocean for thirty years.”
“I dont see myself as any different from all the other Filipinos who have gone abroad looking for opportunity, to be a nurse, a labourer, a maid or a prostitute.”
“The Marines already have started putting women through infantry training. They've done it for the past couple of years. And it's tough. Roughly one-third of women have made it through that infantry training. So you're not going to see a lot of women actually make it through this.”
“I got some pilot scripts and auditioned for a couple other ones, too. It was just a standard audition, where I kept going in to read and went up the ladder, in terms of people who you're performing for during those auditions. Each step of the way, I was happy with that level of audition.”
“I don't have so many friends I can afford to drop one just because he tried to kill me.”

Source : Loren D. Estleman (2011). “Amos Walker: The Complete Story Collection”, p.309, F+W Media, Inc.
“I was with a folk trio back in '63 and '64, and we traveled all across North Africa, Israel, and Europe.”
“We adults, our policies, our ways of governance, are responsible for poverty, not the children.”
“Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.”

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