"My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity."

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Kenzaburo Oe

#Country Quotes #Japan Quotes #Years Quotes

“As much as I'd like to think I'm a really good designer, I'm average.”
“Nothing can be so bad as to be displeased with one's self ...”

Source : Helen Hunt Jackson (2010). “Ramona”, p.44, Modern Library
“We all understand that the debasement of a nations coinage is very pernicious and must prove disastrous to its commerce. How much more dangerous is the debasement of the spiritual coinage!”

Source : "Christian Missions: A Triangular Debate, Before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York". The Monist Magazine, Volume 5, 1895.
“We will not wish we had made more money, acquired more stuff, lived more comfortably, taken more vacations, watched more television, pursued greater retirement, or been more successful in the eyes of this world. Instead, we will wish we had given more of ourselves to living for the day when every nation, tribe, people, and language will bow around the throne and sing the praises of the Savior who delights in radical obedience and the God who deserves eternal worship.”
“Many Jews are not Zionists and many non-Jews are. Zionism is a political movement, not a race. To say Zionism is the Jewish people is like saying the Democratic Party is the American people. Jewish people who oppose Zionism, however, have been given a very hard time.”
“What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.”
“Why are you being so mean?" "Friends tell friends the truth." "yeah, but not to hurt, to help.”
“It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.”

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