Haruki Murakami Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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The truth is, I've been on a team my whole life. I'm the youngest of 7, so I've been training to be an athlete my whole life.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
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I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.
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With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.
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In the early '90s, it was grunge; everybody was fully clothed. Alanis Morissette was one of the biggest artists in the world, never wore makeup, wearing Doc Marten boots, and then the Spice Girls turn up, and suddenly it all looks a bit burlesque; suddenly they're the biggest band in the world.
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Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.
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Look to the Bible and not your feelings as the basis of the Christian life.
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Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
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I feel like I've been split open and stuffed with sunshine.
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There are days when I definitely look in the mirror and go, "All right, I need to find a cream." I can't foresee myself ever going under the knife, but then again, I'm only in my mid-thirties. Maybe it's different when you're in your mid-sixties.
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Whereas happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it, the various qualities of men are clearly the reason why there are various kinds of states and many forms of government; for different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
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Here is a commandment for you: seek happiness in sorrow. Work, work tirelessly.
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I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.
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Deeds and seeds, take their own time to fructify.
