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  A comment on Conversation: How do you define "being successful"?

  Jan 12 2012: I would like to quote Ralph Waldo Emerson on this.
  
  To laugh often and much;
  to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
  to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
  to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
  to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition;
  to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
  This is to have succeeded.

• A comment on Conversation: Can humans end world hunger?

  Jan 12 2012: Ending world hunger is theoretically possible, but human greed and apathy makes it improbable.
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  A comment on Conversation: Does punctuation and spelling still matter?

  Jan 12 2012: As my response, I would like to quote a blogger.
  "An apostrophe is the difference between a business that knows its shit and a business that knows it's shit." - Sam Tanner
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  A comment on Conversation: If you could have done any other career what would it have been?

  Jan 12 2012: I would become a barrister (a.k.a. courtroom advocate).
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  A comment on Conversation: As a trilingual or bilingual, what role does language play in the creation of your identity? Which language do you think in?

  Jan 12 2012: I am a multilingual (English, Spanish, Korean, and Russian) and I think in different languages depending on the subject. Also, I have a bad habit of mixing the languages when I speak to someone who knows those languages. More often than not, I find certain expressions or words in one language that exactly express what I want to say that I cannot find in some others.
  Learning a language (and mastering it) is not only linguistic experience but also cultural one. It broadens your horizons, expands your world and enriches your life.
  My little daughters speak three languages fluently and I will definitely encourage them to learn more when they are ready.
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  A comment on Talk: Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story

  Dec 23 2011: It is so true that the ubiquitous plague of a single story is affecting us everyday and yet most of us do not even recognise its existence. Perhaps it's because It is much easier to categorise others into several groups, label them, dispense our sympathy, donation, condemnation, blame whatever we see appropriate and then move on, than to deal with human complexity. Adichie's talk about this complicated issue is persuasive, engaging, moving and even funny!