"Japan and China are isolated and without intercourse with other countries; hence the President directed me to attend to or watch the state of affairs in China also."

-- Townsend Harris

#Country Quotes #Japan Quotes #President Quotes

“The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.”
“The work of a master reeks not of the sweat of the brow - suggests no effort - and is finished from its beginning.”
“Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols.”
“Freedom is completely without meaning unless it is related to necessity, unless it represents victory over necessity.”
“My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.”
“I'm making tapes for insomniacs to use in the future. I'm going to sell them as a kit to cure insomnia.”
“Your ideas come out of the way you conduct your life.”
“Your nervous system can't tell real failure from imagined failure.”

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