"One should put forth great effort in matters of learning. One should read books concerning military matters, and direct his attention exclusively to the virtues of loyalty and filial piety. Reading Chinese poetry, linked verse, and waka is forbidden. One will surely become womanized if he gives his heart such knowledge of such elegant and delicate refinements. Having been born into the house of a warrior, one's intentions should be to grasp the long and the short swords and to die"

-- Kato Kiyomasa

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“...I swore I would battle not only for myself but for freedom and opportunity for everything living that wore chains, especially sex chains. It that meant poverty for myself and my boy then poverty we should have to suffer. If it meant social ostracism, if it meant relinquishing the literary success that lay within my grasp, then let the success go.”
“Your eye becomes more mature. What you don't see the first time, you keep looking, and eventually you'll see it. And when you are confident with what your eye sees, you know you've got to have it.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The fact is fossil fuel carbon will stay in the surface climate system for millennia.”
“David Moyes, in Italy, would have been sacked three times now.”

Source : "Pity Tim Sherwood but Louis van Gaal can bring brilliance to Spurs" by Daniel Taylor, www.theguardian.com. April 12,2014.
“Today is a good day to be a GIANT!!! Hell everyday is a good day to be a GIANT!! Y'all have a blessed day”
“When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the creator of all things. And they also deepened my sensitivity towards creation itself so that concern for God's creatures and animal rights followed from that. Some people think I'm an animal rights person who just happens, almost incidentally, to be religious. In fact, it's because I believe in God that I'm concerned about God's creatures. The religious impulse is primary.”
“Labor is the true standard of value.”
“I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.”

Source : John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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