Haruki Murakami Quotes
Everybody feels safe belonging not to the excluded minority but to the excluding majority. You think, Oh, I’m glad that’s not me. It’s basically the same in all periods in all societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things.
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I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track.
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Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.
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Immigration is a good thing. We should make that as easy as possible.
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I am a curious creature and put my finger in as many cakes as I can: history, film, technology, etc. I'm also a freak for urban history, particularly Barcelona, Paris and New York. I know more weird stuff about 19th-century Manhattan than is probably healthy.
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I always have stress.
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I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy.
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Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.
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No, but you can see it from here.
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When we have learned the process of faith for receiving healing, we have learned how to receive everything else God promises us in His Word.
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I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
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Hands, are the most honest part of the human body, they cannot lie as laughing eyes and the mouth can.
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We wrote about having five kids and bringing them to church. A journalist at The Washington Post wrote this article where the headline was "The New Catholic Evangelism Of Jim Gaffigan." And it was a bit terrifying.
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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I've never really resented hard work because I've always liked it. Up every morning for roadwork. Going to the gymnasium every day at 12 o'clock. I never change my pattern.
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Not to commit faults counts for more than to do good.
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Never give up on what makes you smile...
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I think the key to being a journalist is getting your subject to feel comfortable enough to talk about stuff they want to talk about and the stuff they like and don't like, and still feel comfortable about it.
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I have a tendency to postpone starting a piece until it's kicked around in my head a little bit.
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The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.
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...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants.
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Everybody feels safe belonging not to the excluded minority but to the excluding majority. You think, Oh, I’m glad that’s not me. It’s basically the same in all periods in all societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things.
