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Instead of holding on to the Biblical view that we are made in the image of God, we come to realize that we are made in the image of the monkey.
Lin Yutang
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Lin Yutang
Age: 80 †
Born: 1895
Born: October 10
Died: 1976
Died: March 26
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It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.
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By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also.
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My faith in human dignity consists in the belief that man is the greatest scamp on earth. Human dignity must be associated with the idea of a scamp and not with that of an obedient, disciplined and regimented soldier.
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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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Winter in Peking is insurpassable, unless indeed it is surpassed by the other seasons in that blessed city. For Peking is a city clearly marked by the seasons, each perfect in its own way and each different from the others.
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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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To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is difficult.
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Neckties strangle clear thinking.
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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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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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The only test of a soul's salvation is its inward happiness.
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The more we justify our beliefs, the more narrow-minded we become.
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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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Sometimes there are more tears than laughter, and sometimes there is more laughter than tears, and sometimes you feel so choked you can neither weep nor laugh. For tears and laughter there will always be so long as there is human life. When our tear wells have run dry and the voice of laughter is silenced, the world will be truly dead.
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Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it.
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The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.
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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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As for international understanding, I feel that macaroni has done more for our appreciation of Italy than Mussolini.
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O wise humanity, terribly wise humanity! How inscrutable is the civilization where men toil and work and worry their hair gray to get a living and forget to play!
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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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