Haruki Murakami Quotes
The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything.
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But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
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The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
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What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?
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I was very insecure approaching the idea of directing a feature film. I told myself I would not move until I felt I was moving in power rather than moving in desperation to make a movie.
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I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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To Trump, whiteness is neither notional nor symbolic but the very core of his power. In this, Trump is not singular. But whereas his forebears carried whiteness like an ancestral talisman, Trump cracked the glowing amulet open, releasing its eldritch energies.
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When you come through a business education, a lot of what they teach you is to make decisions through analysis, and logic and rationale, and I'm a big believer in that. But I also believe in the power of instinct. The truth is you're never going to have a perfect answer or view of how it is going to work.
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In the old days, money controlled politics. Today, information controls politics. So I think with the advent of the Internet, the power of wealth has been diminished. Look up all the people you know who spent millions and millions of dollars and fell short.
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When women and men can shed an equal quantity of tears in public, that's when we'll have equal power.
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The power of the ADA is that it ended up changing my life long before I ever imagined it would.
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I love being a wife and homemaker - because it's my choice. My husband doesn't expect me to do it. I don't mind doing things for him because he does so much for me; we both feel that way so there is no power struggle.
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All facts prove that the Saenuri Party is a group of traitors who stoop to any infamy to realize its ambition to seize power.
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The power and energy sectors are the biggest constituents of the infrastructure sector. If you ignore them, no development will happen.
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The more one presupposes that his own power will suffice him to realize what he desires the more practical is that desire. When I treat a man contemptuously, I can inspire him with no practical desire to appreciate my grounds of truth. When I treat any one as worthless, I can inspire him with no desire to do right.
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The power of fantasy is so strong that people think they are having a good time when they are merely wasting money.
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Our new concept of just power argues that the promotion of justice should be the aim of modern statecraft, not for altruistic reasons, but because it is the only sustainable way that states can promote progress and stability in a globalised world.
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Subconsciously he knew too, that the oriental woman is not a sensualist in the European sense; there is nothing mawkish in her constitution. Her true obsessions are power, politics and possessions - however much she might deny it. The sex ticks on in the mind, but its motions are warmed by the kinetic brutalities of money. (X)
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The 'silk' in silkpunk refers not to a source of power, but to an entirely different, expressive technology language.
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The people I admire most are those who are sensitive and want to create something or discover something, and do not see life in terms of power.
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To have power and contentment at the same time, that is a rare thing indeed.
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I don't know how to get bored. I need to learn to rest.
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'The Odyssey' is the great tale, and I was really taken by 'The Iliad,' so I dig into those things, and when I was a kid I didn't. You've gotta have a certain level of understanding yourself before that stuff really starts to resonate.
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The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything.
