"Where there are humans, You'll find flies, And Buddhas."

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Source : Issa Kobayashi (1991). “The dumpling field: haiku of Issa”, Swallow Press

Kobayashi Issa

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“Think of yourself as a role model for others-showing that you can be kind, generous, loving, and rich!”
“In his laborious efforts to attain mountaintops, where the air is lighter and purer, the climber gains new strength of limb. In the endeavor to over come obstacles of the way, the soul trains itself to conquer difficulties; and the spectacle of the vast horizon, which from the highest crest offers itself on all sides to the eyes, raises his spirit to the Divine Author and Soverign of Nature.”
“I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.”
“A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.”
“There are... for us no instinctsâ€”we no longer need the term in psychology. Everything we have been in the habit of calling an 'instinct' today is a result largely of trainingâ€”belonging to man's learned behavior.”

Source : John B. Watson (2017). “Behaviorism”, p.79, Routledge
“It's possible to paint a monumental picture that's only 10 inches wide, if one has a sense of scale, which is very different from a sense of size.”
“I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.”
“My steamboat voyage to Albany and back, has turned out rather more favorable than I had calculated. The distance from New York to Albany is one hundred and fifty miles; I ran it up in thirty-two hours, and down in thirty. I had a light breeze against me the whole way, both going and coming, and the voyage has been performed wholly by, the power of the steam engine. I overtook many sloops and schooners beating to windward and parted with them as if they had been at anchor. The power of propelling boats by steam is now fully proved.”

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