February is Black History Month......and.....
Chinese New Year was February 7th
Stephen Colbert combined these two events into [say it rapidly, like he does]:
"Black Chinese History New Year Month Minute"
http://www.comedycentral.com/...
.........Hmmmmm....My thoughts turn to combining:
Barack Obama, Candidate for President of The United States
with the wit and wisdom of
Lin Yutang (1895–1976), Chinese writer and inventor.
Result? ....after the jump.....
"Black Chinese History New Year Month Minute"
For Barack Obama.
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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More Quotations from the writings of Lin Yutang, for ALL Democrats this Primary Season:
"It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action."
Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.
Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
"Let us be reasonable . . . . We must have an attitude of expecting neither too much nor too little from life."
"If the early Chinese people had any chivalry, it was manifested not toward women and children, but toward old people. That feeling of chivalry found clear expression in Mencius in some such saying as, 'The people with gray hair should not be seen carrying burdens on the street,' which was expressed as the final goal of good government."
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And one more:
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
http://en.wikiquote.org/...
http://www.brainyquote.com/...
http://www.umass.edu/...
http://www.metmuseum.org/...
http://www.infoplease.com/...