| Selamat Datang (Welcome in Bahasa Malaysia) This site is dedicated to my family and friends. Please take a moment to fill the guest book. Thank you. Since January 6, 2002 Last update Nov 2, 2004 |
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| Yew Kwang Hooi |
| Hi. I am a Malaysian Chinese born in 1979, in a town called Alor Star, Kedah. After graduating from Universiti Teknologi Petronas in 2003, I joined IBM Malaysia as an intern. Currently, I am working for PETRONAS, the Malaysian oil and gas company as a trainee academician. January 2005, I came to the United States to pursue a Master degree in Computer Science at Cornell University, New York. My area interest is in computer, in particular, computer graphics and virtual reality. Academics aside, I have a lifelong passion for pencil sketching of human anatomy and oil painting. I took strong interest in acoustic guitar although I am still very much a novice. During my free times, I can be found in the gym, playing badminton, tennis, jogging or hanging out with friends. |
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| My dad serves in the Meteorological Services Department under the Ministry of Health, Science and Technology of Malaysia. His work involves collection of data for analysis and forecast and issuance of weather warnings to government agencies, aviation, military, private sectors and the public. My mother is a full-time housewife for the past 20 years. I am the eldest among all-boy siblings. The second is pursueing his medical degree, the third is majoring E&E; the rest still schooling. |
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| About My Country |
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| DOING IT MY WAY "For what is a man? What has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels. Let the records show I took the blows, and did it my way..." - Frank Sinatra |
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| BEING BOLD BRINGS FORTUNE "Be bold, and all the mighty forces shall come to your aid." - Goethe, German Poet. |
| "I love the name of honour more than I fear death." - Brutus, Roman Senator. |
| ((((DO SOMETHING!) SMALL)USEFUL)NOW!) - Bob Bemer, Father of ASCII. |
| NEVER GIVE UP IS A ROUTE TO SUCCESS The most pathetic factor of underachievement is your reluctance to recognize and realize your potential. Opportunity begins with every first attempt and enhanced if you look at your each failure positively. And BELIEVE that your next attempt could be the successful one. Edison would have failed if he had given up his 99th light bulb experiment. |
| BE VERY AMBITIOUS TO ACHIEVE GREATER GLORY BELIEVE in the impossible, in the miracles, in the fairy tales, for the logical reason that they inspire you to do and overcome the most difficult task - Will Smith To conquer the highest mountain peak, think of reaching the star - ancient Chinese saying. Just thinking of meeting requirement, in the end, we often grapple to be on the average par. Just thinking of doing well, in the end, we often just meet requirement.. Just thinking of doing the best, in the end, we often just become good. But think of doing the impossible, chances are we will be the best in the crowd. To surpass yourself, aim what is higher than what is expected of you - HIGHER, STRONGER, FURTHER, FASTER |
| THE CORRECT PATH Tread the path not taken by the others, but don't be lost. Tread the path least taken by the other... think again... it could be a dead end. Tread the path taken by most others, we are just a follower. So which path? Choose not the path that limits your choices, worse leading you to the dead end. Choose the path that opens up to more path, to more opportunities, to more choices. Choose the path that leads you to greater glory. |
| "BELIEVE in the impossible, in the miracles, in the fairy tales, for the logical reason that they inspire you to do and overcome the most difficult task." - Will Smith |
| "I am not, nor can I write a lot, but one thing I can say to you, FORGET ME NOT." - William Shakespeare |
| "There is a tide in the affairs of men, which TAKEN at the flood, leads to fortune and fame; OMITTED, all the voyage of life is bound in shallow and in the miseries. On such sea we are now afloat, we must take the current when it serves our course, or lose our venture" - Brutus |
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| HONESTY It is better to tell the truth than to find the skeleton in the closet. They have the habit of exposing themselves. |
| BE OPTIMISTIC KEEPS SHADOWS OF FAILURE AWAY Keep your face towards the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you. |
| BE NUMBER TWO Be number two to no one else. No body remembers runner-ups. |
| LUCKY Luck is when opportunity meets preparation. |
| DRINKING We drink to each other's health and spoil our own. |
| CHALLENGE LEADS TO GLORY The greater the challenge, the greater the glory. The bitter the race, the sweeter the success. |
| DIFFICULTY Diffculty is a severe instructor. |
| WALK THE TALK Be the man who walk the talk. For an ounce of action is worth a tonne of theory. |
| CONFIDENCE BELIEVE, that whether you think you can or you think you can't, you are right at both. |
| STYLE Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. |
| DESIRE How does one become a butterfly? Desire to fly so much that giving up being a caterpillar. |
| FRIENDSHIP A coin is easy to earn, but a true friend is hard to find. The coin depreciates but a friend appreciates over the time. I lost a coin when I sent you a mail/SMS but that's OK because I have got you. Last night I caught some stars. I give them all to my friends so that they know how sparklingly special they are to me. ---------------* Catch, this one is for you! A good friend accomodates you; the best friend dares to speak against you, for your sake. Titanic, though a great ship, still sunk; so the better ship is still the friendship. |
| AIM HIGH I am aware of the fact that I am young and perhaps naive. But there is a very old advise about goal setting, perhaps older than any of you here. If you just aim to be good, chances are you will be below-par. If you just aim to be the best, chances are you will be merely good. But if you desire to create a miracle, believe in it and labour for it, chances are you will stand out among the rest even if you don't become the best. You can go only as far as you push. "When I grew up, I want to fly the fastest plane ever built, make the biggest movie ever; and be the richest man in the world." - little Howard Hughe |
| HOW TO BEGIN? Begin with the end in mind - Anonymous. When you pick an end of a stick, you pick up another end. |
| BE POSITIVE TO MISTAKES "Make mistake and learn from it is a priceless experience. Keep your head, don't blow your cool and pay attention." -Robert Kiyosaki |
| PRICE TO PAY "There is price to pay for almost everything. But the greatest thing in life are free - a smile, congratulation, sun set, full moon..." -Robert Kiyosaki |
| TO BE GOOD, THINK CROOKED To be a good detective, first be honest and of high moral and integrity; but at the same time, think exactly like a crook, someone immoral, unlawful and unethical. |
| BE A CHAMPION Thou shalt not play catch up; you are faster than you think - Nike Ads. Be a fountain, not a drain. - Rex Hudler, Sports Illustrated. There's no trying, only doing or not doing. "It is not the one with the fastest car, it's the one who refuses to lose." - Ralph Earnhardt, Nascar. |
| "If having a lot of money still does not make you happy, the problem is you do not know how to be happy." - Robert Kiyosaki |
| START YOUNG To bend a bamboo, bend when it is still a shoot - Malay proverb. |
| LIVE YOUR LIFE TO THE FULLEST Live your life as if tomorrow is the last, and one day you will be right. Life is too short to be little, so do not let yourself be upset by the things that you will forget one week later. |
| "No one ever accomplishes anything of consequence without a goal... " - Paul Myer |
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| THE HIGHEST SKILL OF CONQUEST "To bring the enemy's army to submit without combat is the highest skill. Therefore the best is to attack his stratagems and deliberations, the next best is to attack his system of alliances, the next best is to attack his army, and the worst, is to attack his cities ... Therefore he who is skilled in the use of armies brings the enemy's army to submit and does not engage in combat." - Sunzi, The Art of War |
| "Work with me, not for me." - Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, the 5th Prime Minister of Malaysia |
| "In Germany they came first for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jews. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didnt speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didnt speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up." - Martin Niemoller, 1892-1984 (German Lutheran Pastor), on the Nazi Holocaust, Congressional Record 14th October 1968 p31636 |
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| "Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music." - Angela Monet |
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| OPEN MIND I would rather have my mind opened by wonder rather than one blinded by faith. |
| CREATIVE THINKING "Pour inventer il faut penser a cote. To invent you must think aside; slidely askew." - Etienne Souriau, French Philosopher |
| Location : Southeast Asia, 3'-5'N 100'-120'E Capital : Kuala Lumpur Climate : Warm (24'-32' Degree Celcius) and humid. Sunny year round with Monsoon season from September to January. Population : 23 million comprising majority Malay, Chinese (about 30%), Indian (about 15%), Eurasians, Siamese and Other Bumiputeras (indigenous). Government : Parliamental Democracy and Constitutionalized Sultanship Head of the Country : DYMM Yang Dipertuan Agong Head of the Government : Prime Minister Economy : Oil and gas, petrochemical, automobile and machineries, electronics, agriculture, domestic products, tourism, education. What is unique : Home of Orang Utan species, the only landing shores for leatherback turtles, Rafflesia flowers (the biggest flower in the world), Asian cultures potpourri. |
| THE PAST, THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE The past is gone, the present is here for the moment, and the future is a blank sheet waiting for you to write upon it. |
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| HARDSHIP It's a human nature - to grow in hardship, to rot in comfort. - Chinese proverb. |
| CONFIDENCE "Believe half of what you see; none of what you hear; but 100% in yourself ... " - Bruce Lee. |
| THE GENTLE FLOW AND CRUSHING POWER OF WATER "Pour into a cup, it takes the shape of the cup. Pour into a pot, it takes the shape of the pot. Water can flow gently but it can also crush. Be like water, my friend ...." -Bruce Lee |
| LOVE Open your heart to love; the past is not the future. Life isn't out there; it is in your mind. Radiate light and love. |
| PERSISTENCE "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. " - Winston Churchill.. |
| BE BOLD Fortune favours the bold. |
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| "I think there is a world market for may be 5 computers"- Thomas Watson, IBM 1943 |
| "Who wants to hear actors talk?"- H. M. Warner, Warner Bros 1927 |
| "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out"- Decca Recording rejected Beatles 1962 |
| "Man will never reach the moon"- Dr. Lee De Forest, TV father, American inventor. |
| UNDERSTAND Seek to understand, then to be understood. |
| BOASTFUL If can't bite, don't show the teeth -Yiddish proverb. |
| SLOW AND STEADY It is better to go slow but keeping on the straight road rather than to go fast but diverted. But consider the reality as well: "Fast and informed decision making is essential for any businesses to be succesful, thus the network must be fast and not just any fast but going at the speed of thoughts..." - Bill Gates. |
| CHILDREN "Our children come through us, not from us" - Kahlil Gibran. |
| GO FOR POTENTIAL "Look at a man the way that he is,he only becomes worse; but look at him as if he were what he could be, the he becomes what he should be" - Johan Wolfgang van Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet. |
| FALLING DOWN WHILE STANDING "... I learnt that you can fall down for anything, as long as you stand up for what you believe in. I may not have the milllions that others have made, but you can't put a price tag on integrity and peace of mind ..." - Les Brown. |
| IMPROVING "Don't let nobody to turn you around, go after your dreams as if your life depends on it, because it does." "Practice doesn't make perfect, it makes improvement." "You learn from experiences. Grow from it, rather than just go through it." "It ain't over until I win!" - Les Brown. |
| HAVE FAITH If you have never seen the Buddha (or whatever name you call your god) in your life, it is because He has been walking with you all the while but doing it from behind. You will probably hear Him if you would just stop and start listening to the Dharma, for He has been a great yet humble teacher guiding in you in silence. |
| LET FEARS LEADS TO COURAGE Courage means taking a chance in spite of fear. |
| FAITH, LOVE AND HOPE Faith goes up the stair that love has made and out of the windows which hope opens. |
| THE COST OF ASKING It costs nothing to ask. Those who ask remain a fool for five minutes, but those who do not remain fool forever. - Chinese proverb. |
| SPEECH "A speech will either prosper or ruin a nation" - Chinese saying |
| RESHAPE CHARACTER " It is easier to reshape a moutain or a river than a person's character." - Chinese saying |
| LOVE & JUDGEMENT If you are occupied with judging your loved ones, you will have no time to love them.. |
| BAD REMARKS Exchanging bad remarks plant the seed for a bad relationship. |
| SUCCESSFUL MARRIAGE Never criticize your spouse's shortcomings for because of the shortcoming your spouse can't find a better spouse than you. |
| PERFECT MATCH Perfect match can only be found between a blind wife and a deaf husband because the wife cannot see the faults of the husband and the husband cannot hear the nagging of the wife. |
| FINGER POINTING "Whenever pointing one finger at the others, the other four fingers are pointing back." |
| DISCOVERY LIES IN THE SEEING EYES " The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust, French Novelist. |
| DOING MERIT IN UNDERSTANDING " I see and I forget. I hear and I remember. I do and I understand." - Confucious. "For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them." - Aristotle in Nichomachean Ethics. "One must learn by doing the thing; though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try." - Sophocles. |
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| UNTIL I LOVED Until I loved life had no beauty; I did not know I lived until I had loved. - Theodor Korner |
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| "Freedom of the press is limited to those who have one" - Journalist A.J. Liebling. |
| "Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is a force, and like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful Master." - George Washington. |
| "Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.." - Henry David Thoreau. |
| "Politics is the art of the possible. I hope there is a rebirth of our values in this country.." - Anonymous. |
| AWARE OF CIRCUMSTANCES Always fish from the right pond. Be a hunter in the right jungle. |
| GOOD FEAR A good fear is the fear for the worst but hope for the best. |
| HAPPINESS The happies of people don't necessarily Have the best of everything; They just make the most of Everything that comes along their way. When the door of happiness closes, another opens; But often times we look so long at the Closed door that we don't see the one, Which has been opened for u. |
| BRIGHT FUTURE The brightest future will always Be based on a forgotten past; You can't go forward in life until You let go of your past failures and heartaches. |
| LOOKS, WEALTH OR SMILE Don't go for looks; they can deceive. Don't go for wealth; even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile, Because it takes only a smile to Make a day seem bright Find the one that makes your heart smile. |
| DON'T DISCRIMINATE "It doesn't matter if it is a black cat or white cat. If it can catch mice, it is a good cat.". - Late Deng Xiao Ping, on development and modernisation of China. |
| "I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation, it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever." - Mao Zedong (1893-1976) |
| TAKING RISK He who hesitates is lost, but think before the leap. - Anonymous. |
| "Sea warfare is cerebral. The threat is over the horizon; nothing can be seen; and everything is reduced to mathematics. The objective is deception more than its aggression. Getting the other side to shoot first, so as to gain political advantage, yet not having to absorb the damage of the attack." - Anonymous. |
| KNOW YOUR ENEMY "He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that." - John Stuart Mill. "He who clearly knows both his own strengths and weaknesses and the enemy's win the war." - Tsun Tzu |
| MINDS OF THE GREAT Great minds don't always think alike. - Anonymous. |
| "Quick institutional change without certain necessary institutional preconditions will cause more problems than it solves." - Anonymous |
| NO TO PASSIVE WORDS "Don't believe in passive words." -Arnold. |
| DEFINITION OF A GOOD LIFE "Life is not the amount of breath you take; it's the moments that take your breath away." - Hitch |
| SUCCESS Success is doing more than you need to, before you are asked to, not because you have to, but because you want to. |
| TRUE LOVE True love does not come by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. |
| FEAR NOT ANY OPPOSITION "Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind." - Hamilton Mabie |
| MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP "Effective maanagement is about putting first thing first, while leadership decides what first things are." - Steven Covey. |
| HABIT "Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny." - Steven Covey. |
| PARADIGM SHIFT "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at same level of thinking we were at when we created them." - Albert Einstein. |
| EVEN IMPOSSIBILITY IS STILL AN UNCERTAINTY "If everything in this life is certain, then history has not taught us anything..." - Michael Corleone in the movie "The Godfather 2" |
| HATRED CLOUDS JUDGMENT "Don't hate your enemy, it will only cloud your judgements." - Michael Corleone to his cousin in the movie "The Godfather 3". |
| PRIORITY "Things which matter the most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least." - Goethe. |
| GOOD DEEDS ARE THE ONLY WAY TO THE LORD "Those who serve the others in need serve me." - the Buddha. |
| DIVINE VICTORY "Victory is changing the hearts of your opponents by gentleness and kindness." - Saladin, a Muslim of chivalry and noble characters. |
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| EXAMINE AND TEST THE TRUTH Be lamp unto yourself. - Gotama Buddha. |
| BE CALM Man cannot see the reflection of themselves in running water, but only still water. - Chuang Tzu. |
| SUCCESS It does not matter at which position you are standing, but which direction you are looking at. |
| EXCELLENCE AND HABIT We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle. |
| PROBLEM AND CHANCE "Problem is a chance to do your best." - Duke Ellington. |
| STAND UP "Those who stand for nothing fall for anything." - Alex Hamilton. |
| DISCOVERY THROUGH MISTAKE "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." - James Joyce. |
| CRISIS ACCORDING TO CHINESE WISDOM When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" consists of two characters - one represents danger, the other represents opportunity. |
| PLAY, CONVERSATION AND DISCOVERY "You can discover more about a man in an hour of play than in a year of conversation." - Plato. |
| EXIT AND ENTRANCE "Every exit is an entrance to somewhere else." - Tom Stoppard. |
| THE ROAD AHEAD "To know the road ahead, ask those coming back." - Chinese proverb. |
| SEE BEYOND When a finger points at the moon, the imbecile looks at the finger. - Chinese proverb. |
| ROAD TO A FRIEND'S HOUSE "The road to a friend's house is never long." - Danish proverb. |
| VISION AND ACTION Vision without action is day dream; but action without vision is nightmare. - Japanese proverb. |
| BE SURE Don't throw away the old bucket until you are sure the new one holds water. - Dutch proverb. |
| TWO SIDES OF A THING The reverse side also has a reverse side. - Japanese proverb. |
| FEAR GIVES YOUR OPPONENT ADVANTAGE Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. - German proverB. |
| BE IMPARTIAL Examine what is said, not him who speaks. - Arabic proverb. |
| OF A HANDSHAKE AND A FIST "You cannot shake hand with a fist." - Indira Gandhi. |
| FINDING JOY "Joy is not in things, it is in us." - Benjamin Franklin. |
| EDUCATION "We seek not to immitate our masters, rather we seek what they sought." - Far eastern philosophy. |
| FRIENDSHIP IS A GIFT "A friend is a gift you give yourself." - Robert Louis Stevenson. |
| FRIENDSHIP, CONFIDENCE AND INTEGRITY "There can be no friendship without confidence, no confidence without integrity." - Samuel Johnson. |
| "Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind." - John F. Kennedy. |
| KIND WORDS "Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." - Mother Teresa. |
| GREAT JOURNEY A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. - Chinese proverb.. |
| WHY NOT "Some men see things as they are and ask 'Why?'. I dream of things that never were and ask 'Why not?'." - John F. Kennedy. |
| THERE ARE NO LITTLE THINGS "Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from those little things... I am tempted to think... there are no little things." - Bruce Barton, U.S. Congressman. |
| WHAT LIES WITHIN "What lies before us and what lies behind us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Oliver Wendell Holme, American jurist. |
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| "Make happy those who are near and those who are far will come." - Chinese proverb. |
| TIME CAN BE MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD "An inch time is like an inch of gold; but an inch of gold cannot buy an inch of time." - Chinese proverb. |
| WHEN TO CALL IT A DAY "Wait until it is night before saying it has been a fine day." - French proverb. |
| THE MAN HE IS AND THE MAN HE IS TO BECOME "Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and he should be, and he will become a man he can and should be." - Goethe. => Do not let other people to condition you. You set your path and shut your ears to passive voices. |
| THE MIDDLE PATH IS THE APEX "... Buddhism calls this 'the Middle Path'. Middle in this sense does not mean compromise; it means higher, like the apex of a triangle ..." - as requoted by Steven Covey in the 7 Habits of Effective People. |
| END OF EXPLORATION "... We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive to the point where we began and to know the place for the first time ... " - Oliver Wendell Holme, American jurist. |
| THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LAZY AND TIREDNESS "Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired." - Jules Renard, French writer 1864-1910. |
| ANALYZE "If you push a wall slightly with your finger and it falls down, never think that it happened due to just your finger touching it. The wall had already been pushed many times before and was just waiting for your finger to push it before it fell down." - Anonymous philosopher. |
| BUDDHISM FOR UNIVERSAL BETTERMENT "Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhis; use it to be a better whatever-you-already-are." - His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. |
| A COSMIC RELIGION "The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion... It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both natural and spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, and a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any religion that would cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism." - Albert Einstein, 1930. |
| LOVE - BETWEEN APPRECIATION AND UNDERSTANDING Love is poetry, and you don't try to understand poetry, you try to appreciate it. |
| De la buena uva viene el buen vino. |
| The less we know the longer the explanation. |
| OF BOOK AND THE READER "A book is like a mirror - if an ape looks in, no saint will look out!" - Martin Luther.. |
| "Sow an action, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a destiny." - From a Buddhist scripture. |
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| "To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die. How's that for a paradox?" - Tom Robbins. |
| Steven Covey 7 Habits 1. Be proactive. 2. Begin with the end in mind. 3. Put first things first. 4. Think WIN-WIN 5. Seek first to understand, then to be understood. 6. Synergize 7. Sharpen the saw (physical, spiritual, mental, social/emotional) -Extracted from Steven Covey's Book "7 Habits of Highly Effective People". |
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