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  • I give thanks for the tears that are welling up in my eyes now, even though I may be ungrateful and unfeeling at times, for this shows that I have been grateful for everything I have been blessed with, and that the Chinese saying of yin2 shui3 si1 yan2 is indeed the cornerstone of Chinese society, for without it, there will be no society to even speak of.

    jaimewolf Diary Entry jaimewolf 2006

  • (wo2 yi3 jing1 ba3 qian1 zheng4 jia1 yan2 liang2 xing1 qi2 le5)

    Taipei Times 2008

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