"Being alone is best. I mean, it's true, isn't it? In the end you'll be absolutely alone; therefore, being alone is natural. If you accept that, nothing bad can happen. That's why I shut myself away in my six-mat one-room apartment."

-- Tatsuhiko Takimoto

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“Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources.”
“If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.”
“I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.”
“Most people still steal music.”
“Look, being president of the United States is the toughest job in the world and I can tell you, as someone who has worked with Secretary Clinton and competed against her that she is a tough person who is ready to do this job.”
“There are many strengths in modern society, but one of its weaknesses is the breakdown of many of the old structures and networks that supported people in times of crisis and need. Whenever we lose a strengthening element in society, we need to replace it with alternative systems as quickly as possible. Befriending schemes are a crucial part of this process, because they fill the gap that social erosion has left in the lives of so many vulnerable people.”
“You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.”
“The theory of the determination of wages in a free market is simply a special case of the general theory of value. Wages are the price of labour.”

Source : Sir John Richard Hicks (1963). “The theory of wages”

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