[http://www.harrisphotography.co.uk/full_lin.htm G8INA's Full Lin Yutang English bibliography] - broken link, see: [https://web.archive.org/web/20100103044245/http://www.harrisphotography.co.uk/full_lin.htm Internet Archive copy] instead

I thought that my invincible power would hold the world captive, leaving me in a freedom undisturbed. Thus night and day I worked at the chain with huge fires and cruel hard strokes. When at last the work was done and the links were complete and unbreakable, I found that it held me in its grip.

Hamish Linklater - Richard Roth

Opposition to Nord Stream 2 flared on the eve of the Biden inauguration in January 2021, when Senate Republicans, led by Ted Cruz of Texas, repeatedly raised the political threat of cheap Russian natural gas during the confirmation hearing of Blinken as Secretary of State.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

This is the last time I'm asking you this,
Put my name at the top of your lips.
This is the last time I'm asking you why
You break my heart in the blink of an eye, eye, eye.