Iwane Matsui famous quotes
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I am confident that the day is not far distant when the light of peace shine again.
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Prince Asaka had joined the army only about ten days before its entry into Nanking and in view of the short time he was connected with this army I do not think he can be held responsible. I would say that the Division Commanders are the responsible parties.
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Orderly discipline and morale within an army was the responsibility of the Division Commander.
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There's no solution except to break the power of Chiang Kai-shek by capturing Nanking. That is what I must do.
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Japan will not abandon the fight for the Philippines even if Tokyo should be reduced to ashes!
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The Japanese army is now prepared to use every means within its power to subdue its opponents. The objectives of the Japanese Expeditionary Forces are, as clearly set forth in statements issued by the Japanese Government, not only to protect the vested interests of Japan and the lives and property of the Japanese residents in the affected area, but also to scourge the Chinese Government and army who have een pursuing anti-foreign and anti-Japanese policies in collaboration with Communist influences.
-- Iwane Matsui
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We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness.
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The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers' meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.
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In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece.
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Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.
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There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.
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That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
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Behind the cloud the sun is still shining.
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So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. Let us have a moral victory that can shine as a light to all nations.
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The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. Little men are dissolved in it. If there is any gold, truth makes it shine more brightly. . . .Truth, even in the mouth of an informer, a spy, a briber, can become bigger than anybody who tries to destroy it. Truth survives.
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I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
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