#chin

Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#chinese #experiences #had #i #interesting

I did skit comedy online for many years, beginning around 2001. Around 2006 I started watching a lot of food television and got re-interested in food. I come from a very food-obsessed family. But I also wanted to do my own thing, which was the comedy. ↗

— Nadia Giosia

#around #beginning #come #comedy #did

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#before #entertainment #form #had #machines

Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources. ↗

— Martin Van Creveld

#become #china #continues #develop #does

Gandhi has more recently recognized the need for continuance of British, American and Chinese efforts in India and has suggested that these troops might remain by agreement with some new Indian Government. ↗

— Stafford Cripps

#american #british #chinese #continuance #efforts

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#character #consists #consuming #deliberately #describe

I had just broken up with my wife so I was searching for another way to live. ↗

— Michael Davis

#another way #broken #had #i #just

I've found that it's actually more of a disability to be tall than short. I have no problem fitting into plane toilets etc, and the adaptations made for wheelchair users - such as the lowering of bank machines - work for me as well. ↗

— Warwick Davis

#bank #disability #etc #fitting #found

Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#authoritarian #beacon #cannot #china #democracy

The enemy of learning is knowing. ↗

— Steve Ahn

#school #students #teaching #education