"In Japan, the average age of agricultural workers is 65.8. When the aging of its population is accelerating so rapidly, it will be very difficult to sustain the sector whether we liberalize trade or not."

-- Naoto Kan

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“Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.”

Source : Rebel Passion (1964) ch. 1
“The motive for our actions doesn't lie ahead of us. It's something behind us that we're trying to escape.”
“Love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.”
“I'm like Madonna: I'm Ming-Na. Just my first and middle name. That's it. Pure and simple.”
“... the poem reminds us of what we ourselves know, but did not know we knew; reminds us, above all, of what we are.”
“A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.”

Source : Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.145, Bantam
“She had died peacefully, in her sleep, after an evening of listening to all of her favorite Fred Astaire songs, one crackling record after another. Once the last chord of the last piece had died out, she had stood up and opened the French doors to the garden outside, perhaps waiting to breathe in the honeysuckle one more time.”

Source : Anne Fortier (2010). “Juliet: A Novel”, p.7, Ballantine Books
“All the arts, music, the visual arts, acting and dancing arts, cooking arts, and I believe sports, will save the human race because they can leap over barriers, religions, leap over barriers of race, politics.”

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