Banana Yoshimoto Quotes
Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a heavy shadow of despair descends.
Quotes to Explore
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
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When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
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There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
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Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
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I was shocked when I heard that Farghadani had been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison on spurious charges, as Amnesty International notes, of 'spreading propaganda against the system,' 'insulting members of the parliament through paintings' and 'insulting the Supreme Leader' with her cartoon.
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To change your circumstances, first start thinking differently. Do not passively accept unsatisfactory circumstances, but form a picture in your mind of circumstances as they should be. Believe and succeed.
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I was four or five, and my mom got all the Power Rangers to come through. I thought it was really them. I started crying tears of joy. It was so amazing. My favorite Power Ranger was the green one. He wasn't in every episode - he was rare, like Based God. He was like the Based God Power Ranger.
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The problem is that people really just don't care and they have been "educated" not to care about the monetary system: that it's boring, it's difficult to understand, we need to have high minded people like "Greenscum" and Bernanke to do things like this (and don't forget Volker, there's the whole cast of them). The thing is that people have been educated or miseducated or brainwashed into believing that this is wayyyy too complicated for regular people to understand and that we need to let PhD economists guide us along in terms of what's right... and that's all bull.
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I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.
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People who feel the world is tilted against them will spawn the kind of hatred that is very dangerous for all of us. I think it's a healthy sign that there are demonstrators in the streets. They are raising the question of 'is the rich world giving back enough?'
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Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a heavy shadow of despair descends.
