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“Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.” quote by Maya Lin — Download Open image

“Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.”

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Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time.

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If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?

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My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

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I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder…

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Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.

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I cannot force a design; I do not see this process as being under my conscious control.

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OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of…

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If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and…

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I can't shout out, "Do this." I don't want to be prescriptive. I want to give you facts, and that's the way I've always…

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Competitions are what you do as a good exercise.

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You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.

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Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.

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Market society is a game where you win by making sure other people are better off with you than without you.

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We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There…

Abraham Lincoln

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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

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You're better off owning 30 percent and having two amazing partners who compliment you and are equally as driven as you are than having…

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If you’d just center your thoughts and affections upon the Lord, you’d be better off accidentally than you’ve ever been on purpose!

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24.9 percent of American children live in poverty, while the proportions in Germany, France and Italy are 8.6, 7.4 and 10.5 percent. And once born on the wrong side of the tracks, Americans are more likely to stay there than their counterparts in Europe. Those born to better-off families are more likely to stay better off. America is developing an…

There definitely was a time when I was pretty obsessed with my weight, but I'm better off not stressing about my body all the…

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If you're talking about intellectual and social equality for women, we're not much better off.America is still very much a male-dominated society. Most American…

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Business runs hot and cold so the more you're in charge of your own destiny, the better off you are.

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I know that you're better off making your own products, not just waiting for someone to hand you something.

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The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when you do…

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I applaud the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act. This was discrimination enshrined in law. It treated loving, committed gay and lesbian couples as a separate and lesser class of people. The Supreme Court has righted that wrong, and our country is better off for it. We are a people who declared that we are…

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