"Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way……" — Amy Chua
"Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through commerce and innovation. Societies like the Dutch Republic and the United States used tolerance to become a magnet for enterprising immigrants."
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76 Quotes by Amy Chua
Amy Chua has 76 quotes on this site.
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A lot of parents today are terrified that something they say to their children might make them 'feel bad.' But,…
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Kids raised to be pampered and spoiled don't really end up being good leaders. Leaders need to be independent minded…
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Real self-esteem has to be earned. I also believe in virtuous circles, like, nothing is fun until you are good…
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I do think that maybe, even subconsciously, a lot of parents in the West are wondering, have we gone too…
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Don't assume your child is weak. If you, the parent, assume that they can't take anymore, what kind of signal…
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I sort of feel like people are not that honest about their own parenting. Take any teenage household; tell me…
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To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of…
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I was raised, myself, by extremely strict but also extremely loving Chinese immigrant parents. To this day, I believe that…
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Genghis Khan decreed religious tolerance for all of his conquered peoples. So I think he definitely would approve of our…
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A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.
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Both of my girls have very high self-esteem because they were both able to master certain things; I should think…
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Everything I do as a mother builds on a foundation of love and compassion.
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More Commerce Quotes
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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of…
— Gaston Bachelard
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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
— Francis Bacon
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I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common…
— Joe Barton
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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.
— Jeff Bezos
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Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with…
— Daniel Boone
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In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering…
— Les Brown
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The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in…
— James Buchan
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The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and…
— James Buchan
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Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
— Anthony Burgess
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In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are…
— George Canning
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A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio…
— John Jay Chapman
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