There are seemingly parallel origins of Nature’s God in America and China’s Mandate of Heaven. These twin concepts created socio-political forces for public good and orderly governance, and a unique cultural ethos (related to the Creator of the Universe in America and the Son of Heaven in China) is deeply rooted in both societies. Each concept is physically yet stealthily manifested in the architectural designs of the two capital cities, Beijing and Washington.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Without God there could be no American form of government nor an American way of life. Recognition o... DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON There is no greater glory than to die for love. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a... KILROY J. OLDSTER Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Maya Angelou had the ability to glean inspiration out of pain. THE PROPHET OF LIFE Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON God is the most beautiful, and beauty is the expression of God. If you can't appreciate beauty in th... AMIT RAY Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed... JOHN H. GROBERG The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live. ANDREA HAIRSTON It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo... J.D. SALINGER There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Lord, help us to choose humility over pride. Help us to choose love over our reputation. ANDRENA SAWYER At the end of the warehouse was a dais constructed from pallets of books: stack of vampire novels, w... RICK RIORDAN She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us. AMIT RAY The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ... C. JOYBELL C. I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind.... GAUTAMA BUDDHA Make every day count... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life; for you never know when... SOLANGE NICOLE (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON In Hong Kong, I read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “Love in the Time of Cholera”, in which the hero... GRAEME SIMSION Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN Pastor Smith did not have the religious constitution needed to provide salvation for any of us who�... CHERYL R COWTAN Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it. SHARON SALZBERG All believers are members of the same body and should be viewed and treated that way. HENRY HON The goal in life is not to try and live forever, but to create something that will forever in people... KARON WADDELL Reyna looked at Percy without much hope. “You do have a plan?” Percy wanted to step ... RICK RIORDAN I can’t believe how much this place has grown,” Hazel muttered. The taxi driver grinned in... RICK RIORDAN You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's... N.K. JEMISIN The real thing that keeps men and women apart, is fear. Women blame men and men blame women, but the... C. JOYBELL C. I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON When each and every believer rises up to serve others and function according to their capacity, the ... HENRY HON In the beginning there was nothing, and then god created "me". BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The goal of any spiritual person is to strive towards attaining self-realization by living spontaneo... KILROY J. OLDSTER Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light. FRANCINE RIVERS In the beginning it was all black and white. MAUREEN O'HARA They could play an endless game of hide-and -seek in so many rooms and up and down the halls that in... EUDORA WELTY Sometimes, how others look at it must not be how you should see it! Sometimes, how it means to other... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Long ago, before I met her, she twisted her blond hair into dreadlocks and, pretty as she is, the lo... TONI MORRISON So what do you do if you are imprisoned for your race and ethnicity? The message is, Those are your ... SUN YUNG SHIN When life gives you lemons, say cool, what else you got? CARMEN IN THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions, so that when he c... JOHN PIPER Who are we if not the stories we pass down? What happens when there's no one left to tell those stor... CARRIE RYAN Anger - a beast within us that needs taming. SARU SINGHAL What? You run? Coward! Stand still and die!” Percy had no intention of doing that. RICK RIORDAN Easing back in her seat, Grace watched the children in the playground opposite, coats off, faces flu... KATHLEEN TESSARO When she was younger, she felt that he wanted to know everything about her, but she was sometimes af... MICHAEL STEIN God has the capacity to look at the world through two lenses. When God looks at a painful or wicked ... JOHN PIPER Beautify your breath – beautify your life. AMIT RAY And what good is a voice when so few will listen? STACEY JAY An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now. KILROY J. OLDSTER Percy was getting tired of water. If he said that aloud, he would probably get kicked out of Po... RICK RIORDAN We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth ha... L.M. MONTGOMERY [Iris] squeezed his hand. "Don't lose hope, Frank. Rainbows always stand for hope. RICK RIORDAN Hope," Frank grumbled. "I'd rather have a few good weasels. RICK RIORDAN Get pass your past, be a presence in your present, and let no one refute your future. JOHNNIE DENT JR. Anything man can make, man can destroy. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... MANDY HALE In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... No piensas en mí como yo en ti. No me importa. Pero si también tienes frío, podrías acercarte y ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Yay!” Tyson went around the couches and gave everyone a big hug—even Octavian, who didn't look t... RICK RIORDAN Hazel!” he yelled. “That box! Open it!” She hesitated, then saw the box he meant. Te labe... RICK RIORDAN If not for the horses, Piper would've died. RICK RIORDAN Pluto's pauldrons,” Reyna cursed. RICK RIORDAN In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We still should have enough time to reach Rome.” Hazel scowled. “When you say should hav... RICK RIORDAN This is Buford,” Leo announced. “You name your furniture?” Frank asked. RICK RIORDAN He’d learned years ago it was better not to dwell too much on who was related to whom on the godly... RICK RIORDAN Did someone just call me the wine dude ?” he asked in a lazy drawl. “It’s Bacchus, pleas... RICK RIORDAN Percy blinked. “So your brother is a winged horse. But you’re also my half brother, which means ... RICK RIORDAN We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL If in barbed wire things can bloom, why couldn't I? I will not die, I will not die. FRIEDL AND THE CHILDREN OF TEREZIN Spirituality is not making walls in the names of religions and prophets but to make more roads and b... AMIT RAY I would suggest that especially in the differential of images that arise, in the inflections that we... LORILIAI BIERNACKI I would suggest that especially in the differential of images that arise, in the inflections that we... LORILIAI BIERNACKI God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name." BJ NELSON .מסכן, אתה כמו ספר ילדים בלי תמונות EFRAT CYBULKIEWICZ We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. THICH NHAT HANH Avoid the temptation to force a moment so you won’t miss the one with your name on it. GINA GREENLEE The time has come," the walrus said, "to talk of many things: Of shoes and ships - and sealing wax -... LEWIS CARROLL Fool! Never wait on a man! Let him wait on himself! V.C. ANDREWS Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH An Indigo Bunting let out a trill, a cheery song, reminding me of better days, of hope and happiness... CHERYL R COWTAN While Maddox now believed the demon did not want to hurt Ashlyn, he wasn't willing to take a chance.... GENA SHOWALTER Your life today is the result of a series of decisions you made that have caused you to arrive where... CHRIS PRENTISS A strong personal philosophy does more than sustain us through the tragedies of life. It also stains... CHRIS PRENTISS The answers are never "out there." All the answers are "in there," inside you, waiting to be discove... CHRIS PRENTISS Letting go doesn’t just mean letting go of the past, but letting go of an unknown future; and embr... MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO When I was a kid, I thought I had my life figured out. I knew where I was going. I was sure of whom ... CRISTINA MARRERO If I died now," he said, "you would hardly remember me when you are my age." He said it for no ... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
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PATRICK DUFFY I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reaso... PATRICK DUFFY I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's ... PATRICK DUFFY I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started ... PATRICK DUFFY I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. A... PATRICK DUFFY It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forc... PATRICK DUFFY I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career. PATRICK DUFFY Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors. PATRICK DUFFY There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you ma... PATRICK DUFFY The last episode of Dallas was in '1991.' Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end th... PATRICK DUFFY I do all the cooking in our family. I'm a utilitarian cook, rather than an adventurous one - I o... PATRICK DUFFY I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness ... PATRICK DUFFY Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but... PATRICK DUFFY There is no such thing as a weekend for me when I'm at home on my ranch in Oregon. PATRICK DUFFY Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am... PATRICK DUFFY The idea is this: It's important to upset one's work habits, to topple the cart for each pro... PATRICK DEWITT Many's the dead author whose body of work has been marred by overzealous publishers or family me... PATRICK DEWITT I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend m... PATRICK DEWITT A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the wo... PATRICK DEWITT When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that make... PATRICK DEWITT I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised... PATRICK DEWITT The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in w... PATRICK DEWITT I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think t... PATRICK DEWITT If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong. PATRICK DEWITT Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tr... PATRICK DEWITT By the time I left the bar, I was 30. I was a dishwasher. They call it a bar-back, but essentially, ... PATRICK DEWITT The question about my Canadianness comes up a lot, and I'm never quite sure what to say about it... PATRICK DEWITT Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want t... PATRICK DEWITT At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what thi... PATRICK DEWITT I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There&... PATRICK DEWITT I felt like love has been underrepresented - unironic love, just actually really falling in love. PATRICK DEWITT Whenever we changed schools, we had to make a new set of friends. At the time, of course, I hated it... PATRICK DEWITT