"Japanese women live in fear of making the least sound in a bathroom stall. Japanese men pay no attention to the subject whatsoever."

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Source : Amelie Nothomb (2007). “Fear and Trembling: A Novel”, p.105, Macmillan

Amelie Nothomb

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“Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.”

Source : His Last Bow 'The Adventure of the Red Circle'
“Remorse is cureless--the Disease Not even God--can heal-- For 'tis His institution--and The Adequate of Hell”
“There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.”
“To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.”

Source : "On the International Workingmen's Association and Karl Marx" by Mikhail Bakunin (1872), as quoted in Mikhail Bakunin "Bakunin on Anarchism" edited and translated by Sam Dolgoff, www.marxists.org. 1971.
“Perhaps depression is a perfectly natural reaction to the human condition.”
“My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain.”

Source : "Justin Cronin, author of The Passage, on book two of his vampire trilogy". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2012.
“I realize I'm not a machine. I'm going to make mistakes.”
“Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.”

Source : David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1846). “The Works of David Ricardo, Esq., M.P.: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.215, London, J. Murray

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