Susan Lim (Susan Lim Mey Lee) Quotes
It was clear to me from the start that I would need to combine both a medical degree with a research qualification, to keep at the cutting edge of medical science and technology.
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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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Any club is important. All Latin music movements are born in clubs. There is no better research than going to a club. If your music works, it will bounce up.
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I have two sisters, and we are the best of friends.
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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I just want to do great work: work that inspires people... To know that you are given this gift in life and that you can gift other people with it, that's the most rewarding thing for me.
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Religion has a good place and it has its good people.
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Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
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When I was outed on July 14th, 2003, I was, until that moment, covert. That means no one outside of a very small circle knew where I really worked.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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The gospel music and doo-wop is what has informed me personally.
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Liberty is the possibility of isolation.
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The bourgeoisie loves so-called 'positive' types and novels with happy endings since they lull one into thinking that it is fine to simultaneously acquire capital and maintain one’s innocence, to be a beast and still be happy.
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One has a feeling that one has a kind of home in this timeless community of human beings that strive for truth. … I have always believed that Jesus meant by the Kingdom of God the small group scattered all through time of intellectually and ethically valuable people.
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I've built a network that curates interestingness. In my universe, it encompasses thousands and thousands of filters and people, each person being a filter. So it's kinda cool. Like I've created my own utopia, removing the boring stuff and showing only the amazing stuff.
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After finishing a draft, no matter how rough, I almost always put it aside for a while. It doesn't matter if it's a story or a novel, I find that when it's still fresh in my mind I'm either thoroughly sick of its flaws or completely blind to them. Either way, I'm unable to make substantive edits of any value.
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I live for my children, so my number one rule is I won't go away from home for more than two weeks.
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You can't talk about what you haven't felt.
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Hubris and science are incompatible.
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Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.
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A piece of freedom is no longer enough for human beings...unlike bread, a slice of liberty does not finish hunger. Freedom is like life. It cannot be had in installments. Freedom is indivisible--we have it all, or we are not free.
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It was clear to me from the start that I would need to combine both a medical degree with a research qualification, to keep at the cutting edge of medical science and technology.
