Haruki Murakami Quotes
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I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.
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Christianity is a battle not a dream.
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Developing nations want to become developed nations.
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It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
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I'm an awfully loyal friend. Once I've started a relationship with someone, it's like they are syrup and I'm a pancake. Their syrup gets into my pancake, so to speak.
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The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
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I've done drives through Budapest and Oslo and used to drive to Sardinia, too, which is quite a journey. Drives are an adventure because I don't plan them too carefully. I take detours depending on how I feel and usually stop and stay at places I like the look of.
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Whether or not Saddam is implicated directly in the anthrax attacks or the horrors of September 11, he is, by any common definition, a terrorist who must be removed.
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The American spirit is stronger than stone and mortar, tougher than steel and glass, and more enduring than any pain or suffering that can be inflicted on our national conscience.
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Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
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We can and must ensure the human rights of the displaced. That begins by making their voices heard.
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If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.
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Sin? Sin is a delusional sickness spawned to peddle a delusional treatment.
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The hungry and the homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant.
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I'm going to get drunk and insult as many musicians from the 80's as is humanly possible.
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Something pure to burn away the darkness that hides inside my mind
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I do get massively distracted when I've got someone in my life, which I can't afford to do right now...besides, no one treats me as well as I do.
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I adopted a pet because I have been wanting one for the longest time. In fact, I am really close to Ravi Dubey's dog Moyo.
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Much has seen said of the wisdom of old age. Old age is wise, I grant, for itself, but not wise for the community. It is wise in declining new enterprises, for it has not the power nor the time to execute them; wise in shrinking from difficulty, for it has not the strength to overcome it; wise in avoiding danger, for it lacks the faculty of ready and swift action, by which dangers are parried and converted into advantages. But this is not wisdom for mankind at large, by whom new enterprises must be undertaken, dangers met, and difficulties surmounted.
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Achievers rarely, if ever, see a problem as permanent,while those who fail see even the smallest problems as permanent
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What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.
