"People cannot live completely by themselves."

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Source : "Words to Live by Hiroo Onoda" by Judit Kawaguchi, archive.is. January 16, 2007.

Hiroo Onoda

“Globalisation thus implies that sovereignty...needs to become weaker.”
“I'm an old man now. I can't believe it. I'm listening to all sorts because I'm producing people.”

Source : Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 17, 2010.
“So long as one's just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired.”
“I do know what it's like to worry about bills, I do know what it's like to worry about even finding a child-minder, never mind paying them.”
“The universe exists under a reign of eternal law, surpassing the imperfect laws of human government. Such orderliness, such domination by law, imply intelligent planning and purpose. Nothing happens of itself. Nowhere, in the age-old experience of man, has continued order been found except as the product of intelligent direction.”
“Reading is the occupation of the insomniac par excellence.”
“We see an entire planet which has many limitations.”
“Were God to show grace to all of Adam's descendants, men would at once conclude that He was righteously compelled to take them to heaven as meet compensation for allowing the human race to fall into sin. But the great God in under no obligation to any of his creatures, least of all to those who are rebels against him.”

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