Why should man bother himself so much about salvation, unless he has a feeling of being doomed? - Lin Yutang

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Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

Lin Yutang

Why should man bother himself so much about salvation, unless he has a feeling of being doomed?

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Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them.

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Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters.

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What is patriotism but love of the good things we ate in our childhood? I have said elsewhere that the loyalty to Uncle Sam is the loyalty to doughnuts and ham and sweet potatoes and the loyalty to the German Vaterland is the loyalty to Pfannkuchen and Christmas Stollen. As for international understanding, I feel that macaroni has done more for our appreciation of Italy than Mussolini. . . in food, as in death, we feel the essential brotherhood of mankind.

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