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Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.
Lin Yutang
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Lin Yutang
Age: 80 †
Born: 1895
Born: October 10
Died: 1976
Died: March 26
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As for international understanding, I feel that macaroni has done more for our appreciation of Italy than Mussolini.
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I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.
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I feel, like all modern Americans, no consciousness of sin and simply do not believe in it. All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell. That is a final fact of my inner consciousness, and for no religion could I deny its truth.
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The purpose of a short story is ... that the reader shall come away with the satisfactory feeling that a particular insight into human character has been gained, or that his (or her) knowledge of life has been deepened, or that pity, love or sympathy for a human being is awakened.
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I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.
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It is not dirt but the fear of dirt which is the sign of man's degeneration, and it is dangerous to judge a man's physical and moral sanity by outside standards.
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A vague uncritical idealism always lends itself to ridicule and too much of it might be a danger to mankind, leading it round in a futile wild-goose chase for imaginary ideals.
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On the whole, the enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is an artistic temperament which is bent on seeking a perfectly useless afternoon spent in a perfectly useless manner.
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Creative work carries with it a form of intense love.
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In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them.
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He who is afraid to use an I in his writing will never make a good writer.
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The more we justify our beliefs, the more narrow-minded we become.
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All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell.
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An educated man is one who has the loves and hatreds together.
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This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
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The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious ... it has need of a wise and merry philosophy.
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Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true happiness, and only that kind of philosophy is sound and healthy.
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If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.
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If man be sensible and one fine morning, while he is lying in bed, counts at the tips of his fingers how many things in this life truly will give him enjoyment, invariably he will find food is the first one.
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I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.
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