Yoshihiko Noda Quotes
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I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.
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Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.
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Together we will act to bring about national reconciliation, secure Malaysia's economic future, and build a stronger, more harmonious society.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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Folklore has a moral center to it. Folklore is always, always, always on the side of the underdog, and children have a natural instinct towards justice. They feel indignation at needless cruelty and wistfulness about acts of mercy and kindness.
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We must build relationships, get to know one another's children, open our arms rather than close our hearts.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.
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Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.
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You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.
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When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
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The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.
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The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
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The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.
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I like children - fried.
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We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?
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Now, and in the future, my focus is entirely on pets and children. I'm not a person who can turn a blind eye to injustice against them.
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[On journalists:] They are the scavengers of society who, possessing no guts of their own, tear out the guts of celebrities. They have the sycophantic, false enthusing gush of maiden aunts: who are accustomed to being trampled on doormats.
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I don't know if I lost the courage to kill myself, or gained the strength not to, but I didn't do it. I kept living and drinking and doing drugs and fucking up. Eventually I ended up here.
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Every line in the government's budget has its own constituency.
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We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.
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A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.
