"Whatever happens in the country, whatever warfare harasses our land, we will never relinquish our hold on Western learning. As long as this school of ours stands, Japan remains a civilized nation of the world."

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Source : Yukichi Fukuzawa, Eiichi Kiyooka (1966). “The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa”, p.211, Columbia University Press

Fukuzawa Yukichi

#Country Quotes #School Quotes #Japan Quotes

“Zionism has gained my full sympathy and I appreciate it much higher than what is called nationalism in modern France. It is a progressive movement, a reawakening, of which I expect a lot for the entire civilization.”
“So remember when you tell those little white lies that the night has a thousand eyes.”

Source : Song: The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
“Tomorrow's just your future yesterday.”
“I am not strange. I am just not normal.”
“When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God.”
“I had not thought of this regular decrease of gravity, namely that it is as the inverse square of the distance; this is a new and highly remarkable property of gravity.”

Source : Quoted in Popular Astronomy, Vol. 56 (1948), pp. 189 - 190, 1691.
“Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.”

Source : Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books
“We ain't making no goddamn cornflakes here.”

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