"The world of dew is the world of dew. And yet, and yet--"

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Kobayashi Issa

#Dew Quotes #World Quotes #Haiku Quotes

“Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.”
“My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or dynamic consequences of a set of assumptions or hypotheses, preparing the way for a decision or an insight. Moreover ... the operations that fill most of the time allegedly devoted to technical thinking are operations that can be performed more effectively by machines than by men.”

Source : "In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990".
“Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?”
“It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.”
“Try not to sing too many sad songs for yourself. The universe already hates you. Self-pity isn't going to help.”
“I went in saying I wanted to be the food guy.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking. . . . If we are to be sure of our liberty, we must be ready to fight for it.”
“When men will not be reasoned out of a vanity, they must be ridiculed out of it.”

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