"As I see it, you are living with something that you keep hidden deep inside. Something heavy. I felt it from the first time I met you. You have a strong gaze, as if you have made up your mind about something. To tell you the truth, I myself carry such things around inside. Heavy things. That is how I can see it in you."

-- Haruki Murakami

#Strong Quotes #Mind Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“If you find someone attractive, you try to make them find you attractive. That is called seduction. And seduction is a bit ugly. You could say it's a bit ugly to use your charisma.”
“Every uniform corrupts one's character.”
“Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?”
“Money, after all, is an abstract artifact, like language - merely symbolized by the paper or coin or whatever. If you can fully grasp its abstractedness, especially in the computer age, it becomes quite clear that no group can monopolize this abstraction, except through a series of swindle. If the usurers had been bolder, they might have monopolized language as well as currency, and people would be saying we can't write more books because we don't have enough words, the way they now say we can't build starships, because we don't have enough money.”

Source : Source: theanarchistlibrary.org
“Joining a Facebook group about creative productivity is like buying a chair about jogging.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 22, 2009
“The NATO alliance is not just a transactional relationship, once again. That alliance serves our interests. That alliance has been critical to keeping security in Europe, so that we do not face another world war.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Honesty . . . is the foundation upon which relationships and many societies are built. Without it . . . there can be no trust. Widespread lying destroys the fabric of democratic societies, in which the necessary assumption is that people mostly tell the truth.”
“If vampires ever spend less time playing theatrics and living down to their stereotypes, they might actually take over the world someday”

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