Lin Yutang Quotes
The Chinese believe that when there are too many policemen, there can be no individual liberty, when there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice, and when there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace.
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The financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition of their systemic vulnerability to unregulated greed.
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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I've had Botox. It hurts a lot, but I like it.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
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'OLTL' has now allowed me to sing through the character as Blair. If you've followed my 20-some-odd-year career, you know I am a singer.
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I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
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I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.
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Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.
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We seem to think we have some control over this planet.
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I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).
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Schweitzer is where I found snowboarding; it will always have a special place in my heart and is a top-notch ski resort. It has some of the best bowl tree skiing in the world and breathtaking views of Sandpoint and Lake Pend Oreille.
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We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
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I don't like to wonder about it-I just like to do it. That's what I mean about the image stuff and all that. There's far too much emphasis being placed on that kind of stuff... the whole emphasis on what does it mean? Everybody has their own particular vision.
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The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.
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Ether is the token of the Ethereum network, which is focused on disrupting contract law.
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But you will imagine that it is best that He should at once enable you to see clearly. If it is, you may be sure He will do it. He never makes mistakes. But He often deals far differently with His disciples. He lets them grope their way in the dark until they fully learn how blind they are, how helpless, how absolutely in need of Him. What His methods will be with you I cannot foretell. But you may be sure that He never works in an arbitrary way. He has a reason for everything He does. You may not understand why He leads you now in this way and now in that, but you may, nay, you must believe that perfection is stamped on His every act.
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I need, sometimes, individuals to spark an idea so that I can take off running.
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The Chinese believe that when there are too many policemen, there can be no individual liberty, when there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice, and when there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace.
