"There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations."

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Source : Saikaku Ihara (1959). “The Japanese Family Storehouse, Or, The Millionaires' Gospel Modernised”, Cambridge University Press

Ihara Saikaku

#Upset Quotes #Careful Quotes #Humans Quotes

“New York feels vibrant It feels electric to walk the streets at night.”
“Of course the concept is to give people samples to get them hooked, I get that. But to continuously give away our music, that's the reason why you don't see [many] rap award shows anymore, the reason that you don't see rappers in commercials anymore; because we have allowed our music to be devalued.”
“There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus.”
“I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.”
“A Mac is a closed box, so Apple can make decisions about things that they don't include. That makes, it in some ways, simpler for them.”
“I told my wife a man is like wine, he gets better with age. She locked me in the cellar.”
“Hillary Clinton has had a very rough experience with Benjamin Netanyahu.”
“Looking out of my window this lovely spring morning I see an azalea in full bloom. No, no! I do not see that; though that is the only way I can describe what I see. That is a proposition, a sentence, a fact; but what I perceive is not proposition, sentence, fact, but only an image which I make intelligible in part by means of a statement of fact. This statement is abstract; but what I see is concrete.”

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