"Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after theyre dead."

-- David Henry Hwang

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“Vertical search engines that match your business, service or products with a target market offer you a higher conversion rate than traditional search engines. Because they have already qualified their interest by coming to a search engine with a specific focus, searchers will be more receptive to targeted advertising.”
“The object is to keep busy being something...as opposed to doing something. We are all sent here to bring more gratitude, more kindness, more forgiveness and more love into this world. That is too big a job to be accomplished by just a few.”
“We obviously talk about immigration, but that's not the number one priority for - at least that I've seen with the Latino demographic. And we have not seen that as polling as the number one issue either.”
“The most important thing for our species is, before it speaks, to listen to its environment. That has a higher priority in any species' survival. We need to be listening to our environment - in other words, restoring the quiet - not just to our natural areas, but also to towns like Portland, Maine.”
“Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.”
“It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.”
“More than anything else, what differentiates people who live up to their potential from those who don't is a willingness to look at themselves and others objectively”

Source : Ray Dalio (2017). “Principles: Life and Work”, p.176, Simon and Schuster
“The cross is Jesus going into the very lair of death. He goes to meet head-on that which frightens us the most. And what does He do? He battles it. He engages it. And finally he conquers it.”

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