"When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice."

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Source : "The Japanese Family Storehouse" by Ihara Saikaku, (Book II, ch. 5), 1688.

Ihara Saikaku

#Men Quotes #Choices Quotes #Clerks Quotes

“Life in this world is short. Let us make use of our lives in the pursuit of happiness and not trouble.”
“We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.”
“Life is like an eternal dance. The movements of the dance are choreographed through your awareness.”
“It's a misnomer to say you can criminalize one part of the transaction and not criminalize the entire transaction. For example in Sweden, where the law was passed in 1999. Those laws didn't actually decriminalize people who sell sex; they introduced new criminal penalties for the people who buy sex. Nothing changed in the legal status for the sex workers themselves. It's impossible for them to operate a legal business. When you criminalize part of a transaction, you're creating collateral damage for all those engaged in it. You are now making them work in a criminalized context.”
“If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches they will take sandwiches.”
“It is notorious that the desire to live increases as life itself shortens.”

Source : Charlas de Cafe
“There is something wrong with using faith - belief without evidence - as a political weapon. I wouldn't say there is something similar about using science. Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.”
“When you create something you leave little crumbs of stuff that you've experienced or music that you've listened to.”

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