"To be upright and to have an imagination: that is enough to be a very good young man."

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Source : "Conversation with Kenzaburo Oe" by Harry Kreisler, "Conversations with History", Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley, globetrotter.berkeley.edu. April 16, 1999.

Kenzaburo Oe

#Men Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Enough Quotes

“Tired of nagging your kids to hurry up, get dressed, drink their milk and brush their teeth? Here's a radical idea: Don't.”

Source : "Forget Flowers, 5 Ways to Make Mom Happier" by Bruce Feiler, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 7, 2013.
“Why are we honoring this man? Have we run out of human beings?”
“Jazz is like a great blues band that fell down the stairs”
“The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.”
“Hanukkah is...the festival of lights, instead of one day of presents, we get eight crazy nights”
“Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority in the face of one's diminished influence.”

Source : David Lehman (1992). “Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man”, Poseidon Pr
“The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts.”
“Why don't people believe us when we say we're simply in love?”

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