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4,000 Questions for Getting to Know Anyone and Everyone

by Barbara Ann Kipfer (Goodreads Author)

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Apr 15, 2012 08:23AM

“A true friend will be there to congratulate you when you win an Academy Award and will also be there to hold your hair back when you're puking your guts out in the bathroom stall two minutes later! So keep your eyes peeled for the hair-holding kind.”
― Jordan Christy, How to Be a Hepburn in a Hilton World: The Art of Living with Style, Class, and Grace

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“Yong is the outer manifestation of something. Ti is the underlying essence. Technology is a yong associated with a particular ti that is ... Western, and completely alien to us [the Chinese]. For centuries, since the time of the Opium Wars, we have struggled to absorb the yong of technology without importing the Western ti. But it has been impossible. Just as our ancestors could not open our ports to the West without accepting the poison of opium, we could not open our lives to Western technology without taking in the Western ideas, which have been as a plague on our society. The result has been centuries of chaos.”
― Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

tags: chinese, history, society, technology, western

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