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Quote by Lin Yutang
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but wh

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. – Lin Yutang

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This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought. – Lin Yutang

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Humor
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I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking. – Lin Yutang

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Clothing
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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. – Lin Yutang

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Simplicity
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Hope
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted. – Sammy Davis, Jr.

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God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us — in the dreariest and most dreaded moments — can see a possibility of hope. – Maya Angelou

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Hope

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency. – Wendell Phillips

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A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts. – Axel Munthe

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While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. – Henry C. Link

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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda. – Hannah Arendt

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Even if people do wrong, were social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future? Saying people are bad or evil is just an unwillingness to engage an unwillingness to try to empathise. That sanctimonious attitude doesnt help anyone. – Denise Mina

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As for how criticism of Keats poetry relates to criticism of my own work, Ill leave that for others to decide. – Jane Campion

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Poetry