"It is useless to talk with those who do not understand one and troublesome to talk with those who criticize from a feeling of superiority. Especially one-sided persons are troublesome. Few are accomplished in many arts and most cling narrowly to their own opinion."

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Source : Amy Lowell, Murasaki Shikibu, Annie Shepley Omori, Kochi Doi (2003). “Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan”, p.24, Courier Corporation

Murasaki Shikibu

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“Imagination is so much more fertile than life.”
“It is the assumption of this book that there is a typical human nature. It is the aim of this book to seek it. Just like a surgeon, a psychiatrist can make all sorts of basic assumptions when a patient lies down upon the couch. He can assume that the patient knows what it means to love, to envy, to trust, to think, to speak, to fear, to smile, to bargain, to covet, to dream, to remember, to sing, to quarrel, to lie. The 'smile' of a baboon is a threat; the smile of a man is a sign of pleasure: it is human nature, the world over.”
“Collecting at its best is very far from mere acquisitiveness; it may become one of the most humanistic of occupations, seeking to illustrate by the assembling of significant reliques, the march of the human spirit in its quest for beauty...”
“I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.”
“The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.”
“This flag .. is raised not without costs, .. without the costs of having struggled for many years, without the costs of having lost so many lives in order to have a free and sovereign and good Afghanistan.”
“We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.”
“I have come to know well that fates are fickle in the business of English football. And I feel that I have pushed mine well past the limit.”

Source : "Paul Lambert to have crisis talks with Aston Villa owner, Randy Lerner" by Stuart James, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2014.

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