Haruki Murakami Quotes
I could disappear from the face of the earth, and the world would go on moving without the slightest twinge. Things were tremendously complicated, to be sure, but one thing was clear: no one needed me.
Quotes to Explore
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
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Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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There have been so many great moments in golf that you even forget some of them.
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Being an entrepreneur is my dream job, as it tests ones tenacity.
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I come from a pretty strange family.
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I think gymnastics was associated with the 10. I thought that belonged to the sport, and somehow we gave it way.
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The rational intellect doesn't have a great deal to do with love, and it doesn't have a great deal to do with art. I am often, in my writing, great leaps ahead of where I am in my thinking, and my thinking has to work its way slowly up to what the 'superconscious' has already shown me in a story or poem.
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Be in love with your life every detail of it
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We know that the real lesson to be taught is that the human person is precious and unique; but we seem unable to set it forth except in terms of ideology and abstraction.
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I don't like your I-can-use-anything-as-an-adjective attitude.
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I think, for me, nature has always been my main point of reference. I think as a child I was fascinated by landscapes and nature wherever I went. I was able to travel all over Denmark, which is not that large, everywhere in this country where I've been I always loved the landscape.
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The technology is just so far gone. It's just like back in the day you needed a suitcase just to have a cell phone. The battery was so heavy, it was like carrying a gallon of soda around with you all day.
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I would say confidence and security and comfortability in one's own skin. I think that's so attractive. Truly.
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The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.
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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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What turn of card, what trick of game Undiced? And you we valued still a little More than Christ.
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Any work that is not rooted in myth and poetry or that does not partake of the depth and essence of the universe is merely a ghost.
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I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free. But it is not free to sing. So I take it and fix it into my violin. I bind it and when it is bound, it is free for the first time to sing.
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I could disappear from the face of the earth, and the world would go on moving without the slightest twinge. Things were tremendously complicated, to be sure, but one thing was clear: no one needed me.
