"From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation."

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Source : Yasunari Kawabata (2015). “The Master of Go”, p.57, Random House

Yasunari Kawabata

#Japan Quotes #Way Quotes #Regulation Quotes

“The speculators deadly enemies are: Ignorance, greed, fear and hope. All the statute books in the world and all the rules of all the Exchanges on earth cannot eliminate these from the human animal.”

Source : Edwin Lefevre (2013). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.477, Lulu Press, Inc
“Politically, I don't care what party you're from, offer a point of view and let's see what happens and really debate the issues rather than use personal attacks. Really talk about it, talk about immigration, talk about education, talk about pollution.”
“All of them are men, not a girl amongst them unless you count Tommy Falk because his lips are so pretty.”
“I was lying ten and had a thirty-five foot putt. I whispered over my shoulder: "How does this one break?" And my caddie said, "Who cares?"”
“Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.”

Source : Tracy Kidder, Richard Todd (2013). “Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction”, p.19, Random House
“Lots of neat Christian boys, not a lot of Godly men. And we are working our tails off for you to try to develop some into that. But do not settle, because it's better that you be lonely now than you be married and lonely later. Are you tracking me? It is better that you be lonely now than for you to get married to a man that will teach your kids everything but the way of Jesus.”
“It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.”
“Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'”

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