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My dad, coming from a very traditional family, always wanted me to be a doctor. So he would always ask me, 'What are you going to be when you grow up?' And I'd have to say 'Dr. Chen.'


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JONATHAN CHEN All the lasting adversities humanity has been facing became essentially inevitable the day mankind a...
JONATHAN CHEN For us to enliven the endurance of humanity, we must become accustomed to the repetition of humanita...
JONATHAN CHEN Hatred is a passionate disease that impairs one's ability to see the better self.
JONATHAN CHEN The drive to excellence Jobs had was a continuation of the great institution many had shared before ...
JONATHAN CHEN As history be told truthfully, edification becomes much less exhausting.
JONATHAN CHEN Names and labels are what we use to identify, not to divide.
JONATHAN CHEN What we have been seeing these days is not quite as encouraging as what we used to believe that in t...
JONATHAN CHEN Coexistence is not only possible, but beautiful.
JONATHAN CHEN In a democracy, we expect the government to be tight-fit, transparent outfit that sticks to the body...
JONATHAN CHEN Democracy is a whole package of institutional course for arriving at political decisions. It encomp...
JONATHAN CHEN Democracy never guarantees the best to be elected. Democracy, as it is designed and when it is funct...
JONATHAN CHEN I have gradually come to a clear identification of the most essential qualities for personal being: ...
JONATHAN CHEN A child who is content for the peace he has at home is the real fortunate one compare to the child w...
JONATHAN CHEN A world where children are loved by strangers, by people in far away places, by soldiers of the enem...
JONATHAN CHEN Don't keep blaming the shoes. Maybe it's time to change the path.
JONATHAN CHEN When imagination is youthful, it propels creativity. Youthfulness in imagination has little to do wi...
JONATHAN CHEN Prejudice cannot be a sudden emergence. It is a results of a series conscious conditioning, tethered...
JONATHAN CHEN A bee gathers from the same type of sources a bug does. But a bee works the inner transformation wit...
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