"Poverty and loneliness could be seen as a liberation from strivings to become rich and popular."

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Source : Donald Richie (2007). “A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics”, p.47, Stone Bridge Press

Donald Richie

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“Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your lifeâ€™s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.”
“I've played such good golf, and it was hard coming up and it wasn't easy in any matches or any shots. It means a lot. I think hopefully it will mean a lot to New Zealand because I'm the next winner of the U.S. Amateur after Danny Lee.”

Source : US golf Association Interview, www.usga.org. August 11, 2012.
“Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.”

Source : John Agyekum Kufuor (2001*). “Towards a golden age of business: selected speeches of H. E. Mr. John Agyekum Kufuor, January-December, 2001”
“I think the New Bohemians' inability to say no was a big part of our problem.”
“You would think the fury of aerial bombardment would rouse God to relent; the infinite spaces Are still silent. He looks on shock-pried faces. History, even, does not know what is meant.”

Source : 1951 'The Fury of Aerial Bombardment'.
“The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.”
“But what Web services suggest is that the connection is always there between an application that is resident somewhere in the cloud, and a user who is somewhere on the other end of a connection.”

Source : "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.
“We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.”

Source : FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Nov 09, 2013

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