"Americans are so often thrown by Japan. It looks familiar but, an inch below the surface, it isn't anything like the West at all."

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Source : Cathy N. Davidson (2006). “36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan”, p.13, Duke University Press

Cathy Davidson

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“I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused.”
“I ask a wreathwhich will not crush my head. And there is no hurry about it; I shall have, doubtless, a boom after my funeral, Seeing that long standing increases all things regardless of quality.”
“Understand life's mysteries - as mysteries to be lived.”
“I have to travel a lot, but relaxation to me is when I am at home.”
“He [Viggo Mortensen] was standing behind the camera throwing the apples â€¦ And Iâ€™ve never seen him so happy.”
“Where no guiding ideals are left to point the way, the scale of values disappears and with it the meaning of our deeds and sufferings, and at the end can lie only negation and despair. Religion is therefore the foundation of ethics, and ethics the presupposition of life.”

Source : Werner Heisenberg (1990). “Across the frontiers”, Ox Bow Pr
“Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.”
“I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them?”

Source : "Unspoken worlds" by Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2007.

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