“ Be content with what you have;rejoice in the way things are.When you realize there is nothing lacking,the whole world belongs to you. Lao Tzu
“ Approaching the Start of Civil ExamsPerhaps I was once a young Chinese scholarapproaching the start of civil exams,my mind grown weary and sad from seclusionwith books on syntax and poetic style.All t… Jim Chapson
“ We set our own limits on love. Some of us bind our hearts like Chinese women bind their feet. The binding is painful at first but eventually you get used to it and the pain goes away. The saddest part… Kate McGahan
“ Isaiah and Beth sit on the bed and munch on a shared container of pepper steak. Isaiah moves some of the pile from Beth’s side of the container, and she darts her fork as if to stab him, but he quickl… Katie McGarry
“ The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity. John F. Kennedy
“ Workers were required to stay six months, and even then permission to quit was not always granted. The factory held the first two months of every worker's pay; leaving without approval meant losing th… Leslie T. Chang
“ Since the beginning of physics, symmetry considerations have provided us with an extremely powerful and useful tool in our effort to understand nature. Gradually they have become the backbone of our t… Tsung-Dao Lee
“ Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone gaga over 'holistic medicine' and 'alternative Chines… Anthony Bourdain
“ Nature seems to take advantage of the simple mathematical representations of the symmetry laws. When one pauses to consider the elegance and the beautiful perfection of the mathematical reasoning invo… Chen Ning Yang
“ There is reinforcement in such familiar back-formations as Chinee from Chinese, Portugee from Portuguese. H.L. Mencken
“ The cunning villains used our innocence, naivety and honesty; they incited and steered our virtue, purity and fervent temperaments. When we realized the actual absurdity of the situation and began to… Lin Zhao
“ Perhaps the god who had made the Cat People intended them as a joke. They had schools, but no education; politicians but no government; people, but no personal integrity; faces, but no concept of face… Lao She
“ The progress of science has always been the result of a close interplay between our concepts of the universe and our observations on nature. The former can only evolve out of the latter and yet the la… Tsung-Dao Lee
