Haruki Murakami Quotes
Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
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We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect.
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If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority.
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The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.
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We all belong to South Africa, and South Africa belongs to us all.
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If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.
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If you exile a writer, however free the country he is sent to, there will always be a sense of internal constraint.
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I guess I've grown to admire Queen Elizabeth II more. I've always struggled with my feelings about the Royal Family. I am a supporter. I'm not someone who thinks we should get rid of them. But what I've struggled with is the lack of emotionality that the Queen seems to share.
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The life of Lord Krishna has been misunderstood by many Western commentators. Scriptural allegory is baffling to literal minds. A hilarious blunder by a translator will illustrate this point. The story concerns an inspired medieval saint, the cobbler Ravidas, who sang in the simple terms of his own trade of the spiritual glory hidden in all mankind:
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Africa is wealthy in natural resources; the problem is they are not optimally utilized.
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Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.
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Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.
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I only know we loved in vain;I only feel - farewell! farewell!
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The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.
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The bonds that women share around the world, wherever we come from, they're very powerful and they have an ease of communication because we share those very important things of our families, our mothering, of improving opportunities for the next generation.
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Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water.
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Death is only an old door/Set in a garden wall.
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Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.
