"When we demand liberty of a person as……" — Lin Yutang
"When we demand liberty of a person as a constitutional right, we are taking away from the officials their liberty to chop off people's heads."
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83 Quotes by Lin Yutang
Lin Yutang has 83 quotes on this site.
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I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.
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The history omankind seems like kite flying; sometimes, when the wind is favorable, we let go the string a little…
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However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated…
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Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his…
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No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful…
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Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to…
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It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.
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Not until we see the richness of the Hindu mind and its essential spirituality can we understand India
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I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of…
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Art is both creation and recreation.
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Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus…
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Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old…
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More Chop Quotes
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I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile,…
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My grandparents back in Kentucky owned a tobacco farm. So, to make money in the summer, we could cut and…
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The relaxation should not be a method. You should not relax through a Yoga posture. This very understanding is relaxing,…
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32 grams raw, chop it in half, get 16. Double it times three, we got 48. Which mean a whole…
— Foxy Brown
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What first stuns the young writer emerging from college is that there is no clear-cut road for him to travel…
— Unknown Author
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Iraq will spread them even more and chop them up.
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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It was my pork chop. But that's ok. I ate his dog food.
— Unknown Author
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I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne.
— Jerome K. Jerome
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Al Gore announced he is finishing up a new book about global warming and the environment. Yeah, the first chapter…
— Conan O'Brien
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In fact a favourite problem of Tyndall is-Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom.…
— Thomas Huxley
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I grew up in the Cayman Islands. I didn't play video games or watch TV. I would basically come home…
— Armie Hammer
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The funny thing about Thanksgiving ,or any big meal, is that you spend 12 hours shopping for it then go…
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