"In Japan, usually, once you become prime minister, you do not have a second chance. Probably the reason why that was not the case this time is because Japan is facing an increasingly challenging situation."

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Source : "Interview with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe". www.washingtonpost.com. February 20, 2013.

Shinzo Abe

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“You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.”
“If you give people a good enough 'why', they will always figure out the 'how'.”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 17, 2013
“You are a creature of Divine Love connected at all times to Source. Divine Love is when you see God in everyone and everything you encounter.”
“After the trial, I watched as another female pathologist collected maggots from a spinal column found in the desert. There was a decomposed head, too, and before leaving work she planned to simmer it and study the exposed cranium for contusions. I was asked to pass this information along to the chief medical examiner, and, looking back, I perhaps should have chosen my words more carefully. 'Fire up the kettle,' I told him. 'Ol'-fashioned skull boil at five p.m.”
“When you die and go to heaven our maker is not going to ask, 'why didn't you discover the cure for such and such? why didn't you become the Messiah?' The only question we will be asked in that precious moment is 'why didn't you become you?'”
“Jill felt an emptiness open inside of her as she lifted her arm, a sense that something vital was being subtracted from her life. It was always like that when somebody you cared about went away, even when you knew it was inevitable, and it probably wasn't your fault. (341)”

Source : "The Leftovers". Book by Tom Perrotta, August 30, 2011.
“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”
“I consider kissing her right there on the dirty couch, but self-preservation stops me. Once someone hurts you, itâ€™s harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesnâ€™t stop you wanting them. Sometimes I actually think it makes the wanting worse”

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