Lin Yutang Quotes

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Comedian | October 10, 1895 - March 26, 1976
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This is the last time I'm asking you this,
Put my name at the top of your lips.
This is the last time I'm asking you why
You break my heart in the blink of an eye, eye, eye.
Taylor Swift
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Meat eating orchids forgive no one just yet
Cut myself on angel hair and baby's breath
Broken hymen of your highness, I'm left black
Throw down your umbilical noose so I can climb right back.
MC Solaar
Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
Li Ka-shing
[http://web.archive.org/web/20041010171643/http://users.compaqnet.be/cn111132/chuang-tzu/ Complete Works Of Chuang Tzu], translated by Burton Watson
Zhuang Zhou
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[https://archive.org/stream/sextusempiricusa17556gut/17556.txt Full text of Pyrrhonic Sketches online]
Sextus Empiricus
[https://archive.org/search?query=Tegla+Lorupe&sin=TXT Internet Archive]
Tegla Loroupe
[https://web.archive.org/web/20070309142929/http://www.shinfujin.gr.jp/eng/1_what/index.html New Japan Women's Association]
Hiratsuka Raichō
[https://www.floridamemory.com/discover/audio/playlists/dust_tracks.php Online recordings of Zora (made available for public use by the State Archives of Florida)]
Zora Neale Hurston
[https://m.rediff.com/news/varsha.htm Archive of Articles by Varsha]
Asha Bhosle
[...] only old branches can be broken. The young ones bend with the storm. Only the stupid ones resist.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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My teaching, if that is the word you want to use, has no copyright. You are free to reproduce, distribute, interpret, misinterpret, distort, garble, do what you like, even claim authorship, without my consent or the permission of anybody.
U. G. Krishnamurti
[http://www.onweb.org/archive/features/shiva/shiva.html An interview with Vandana Shiva]
Vandana Shiva
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Opposition to Nord Stream 2 flared on the eve of the Biden inauguration in January 2021, when Senate Republicans, led by Ted Cruz of Texas, repeatedly raised the political threat of cheap Russian natural gas during the confirmation hearing of Blinken as Secretary of State.
P. J. Antony
Hamish Linklater - Richard Roth
Inky Johnson
I thought that my invincible power would hold the world captive, leaving me in a freedom undisturbed. Thus night and day I worked at the chain with huge fires and cruel hard strokes. When at last the work was done and the links were complete and unbreakable, I found that it held me in its grip.
Rabindranath Tagore
[https://web.archive.org/web/20051124140305/http://www.texaschapbookpress.com/magellanslog49/hsinhsinmingtranslations.htm Hsin Hsin Ming — side by side translations of Richard B. Clarke and D. T. Suzuki]
Sengcan