Okakura Kakuzo Quotes
In Japan, I took part in a tea ceremony. You go into a small room, tea is served, and that's it really, except that everything is done with so much ritual and ceremony that a banal daily event is transformed into a moment of communion with the universe.
Quotes to Explore
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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In 1995, the Clinton Administration reached an agreement with Cuban government that any refugee caught at sea would be sent back to Cuba while any refugee who reaches the United States shores would be allowed to begin the process to citizenship after one year.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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To think that guys who grew up in the '60s would make a miniseries supporting the idea that Oswald acted alone is something I certainly wouldn't have predicted. But time and evidence can change the way we view things.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
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I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.
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I can flip my tongue over. Only one in 10,000 people can. I learned that at Ripley's Believe It or Not!
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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'Newsies' is definitely aerobic! The boys have to do a lot more than I do in the show, but for 'King of New York,' the big Act Two tap number, I have to be warmed up or I will hurt myself.
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I continue to aspire to serve Colombia as president.
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I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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I just can't read music.
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Come, then, let us go forward together with our united strength - and win a better future for generations to come.
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When I retire or pass away, I will be able to look back and say that this has been an exciting life. That's all that matters.
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The advertising man who spares the midnight oil will not get very far.
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My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
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Things of the spirit are what count: brotherhood – in a day when there is too much hatred at home and abroad; cheerfulness – in a day when the pessimists have the floor and cynics are popular; service – in a day when millions are interested in getting or grasping, rather than giving
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In Japan, I took part in a tea ceremony. You go into a small room, tea is served, and that's it really, except that everything is done with so much ritual and ceremony that a banal daily event is transformed into a moment of communion with the universe.
