"If we have a thousand bamboo spears, there's nothing to worry about a war with the Soviet Union."

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Source : "Sugamo Diary" by Yoshio Kodama, (p. 30), 1960.

Sadao Araki

#War Quotes #Worry Quotes #Bamboo Quotes

“Technology is seductive when what it offers meets our human vulnerabilities. And as it turns out, we are very vulnerable indeed. We are lonely but fearful of intimacy. Digital connections and the sociable robot may offer the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship. Our networked life allows us to hide from each other, even as we are tethered to each other. Weâ€™d rather text than talk.”

Source : Sherry Turkle (2017). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.27, Hachette UK
“Be modest, be humble, be simple,”
“Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.”
“we have these instincts which defy all our wisdom and for which we never can frame any laws. ... They are powers which are imperfectly developed in this life, but one cannot help the thought that the mystery of this world may be the commonplace of the next.”
“I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.”
“It was strange: When you reduced even a fledgling love affair to its essentials--I loved her, she maybe loved me, I was foolish, I suffered--it became vacuous and trite, meaningless to anyone else. In the end, it's only the moments that we have, the kiss on the palm, the joint wonder at the furrowed texture of a fir trunk or at the infinitude of grains of sand in a dune. Only the moments.”
“To keep farmers on the farm we must maintain a strong farm safety net, but we will also have to build a thriving companion economy to compliment production agriculture in rural America.”
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