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Lin Yutang Quotes

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: chinese
Birth: October 10, 1895 - March 26, 1976

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Live You Useless Afternoon How

My brother and I are politically-minded guys.

After I finished my first draft of 'Salvage the Bones,' I felt that I wasn't political enough. I had to be more honest about the realities of the community I was writing about.

Community Writing Political Enough

Sometimes it's really weird being an artist, and I deal with that best by being myself.

Myself Best Weird Being Myself Deal

Can the wider West establish a global 'cyber NATO?' It would be difficult, but so, too, was the founding of NATO itself, which was called into being only after successive communist coups in Eastern Europe.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Cyber Difficult Europe Communist

I gravitate towards roles where women find strength in very difficult, uncompromising situations but maintain clarity in mind, discipline at heart, and a certain strength in spirit.

Strength Women Heart Discipline Mind

He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice.

Michael Kinsley

Courage Enough Nice Want Nasty He

No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.

Education Process Necessity Get

I am very proud of my mom and consider her the most courageous woman I know. With perseverance, sacrifice and hard work, she raised a family of Olympic athletes and gave us the tools and the spirit to succeed. That is something that my brothers and I will always be thankful for.

Work Family Hard Work Perseverance

The key to making the inspections work is the Iraqi government making the crucial decision that because of the international pressure Iraq has to disarm itself.

Work Decision Government Key Because

Science is difficult and slow no matter who you are. The hours are long, and the glorious 'aha' days come only very infrequently. You have to keep believing that if you put in the hours, those days will indeed come!

Science Slow Long You Believing

It's not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, 'Read,' but a writer can read too much and be paralyzed. Or, 'Don't read, don't think, just write,' and the result could be a mountain of drivel.

Mountain Think Result You Too Much

Economists specialize in pointing out unpleasant trade-offs - a skill that is on full display in the health care debate. We want patients to receive the best care available. We also want consumers to pay less. And we don't want to bankrupt the government or private insurers. Something must give.

Sendhil Mullainathan

Health Best Government Care Skill

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