"Regarding R. H. Blyth: The first book in English based on the saijiki is R. H. Blyth's Haiku, published in four volumes from 1949 to 1952. After the first, background volume, the remaining three consist of a collection of Japanese haiku with translations, all organized by season, and within the seasons by traditional categories and about three hundred seasonal topics."

-- Reginald Horace Blyth

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“So much has changed about the culture, it's so much more about money and celebrity. Celebrity not in the sense of people who achieve something, because in the old days, I think if you were famous it meant you were an achiever. Now it's the Kardashians.”
“You do understand," she continued, "that unless I had an object to love -- or, more accurately, a someone to love -- if I did not have such a relationship within myself, then I would not be capable of love at all? You would have a god who could not love. Or maybe worse, you would have a god who, when he chose, could love only as a limitation of his nature.”
“One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.”
“It was the kiss of a man who had waited years for the moment, and feared that it would never come again.”
“Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.”
“I suppose really I was a wife, a mother and a business woman, and then suddenly catapulted into this kind of world of craziness where itâ€™sâ€¦ thereâ€™s good sides and thereâ€™s bad sidesâ€¦IÂ wouldn'tÂ kind of turn the clock back and takeÂ another direction.”
“Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.”

Source : William Mathews (1874). “Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life”, p.136, Belford Bros.
“It is imperative that the entire Christian community in the United States come to realize the grave threats to the Church's public moral witness presented by a militant atheism which finds increasing expression in the political and cultural spheres. The seriousness of these threats needs to be clearly appreciated at every level of ecclesial life.”

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