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"Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still more Chinese and generally kicking around the country."
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"What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?"
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"The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?""
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"I've got a great place, it's a country house."
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"We were surprised that the television series had the kind of longevity that it had after only four years of filming it and the reception in 6 countries around the world was quite extraordinary."
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"What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds."
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"Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it."
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"Singing is not indulged in by Rotary clubs of some countries and all clubs are given full privilege to do as they please about including it in their programs."
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"The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried."
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"When you want to make it clear to the rest of the world that you are not an imperialist, the best countries to have with you are Britain and Spain."
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"Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country."
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"As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake."
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"After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun."
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"The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture."
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"My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits."
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"Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic."
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"I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back."
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"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."
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"It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later."
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"I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern."
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"My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well."
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