Rila Fukushima Quotes
I have a weakness for buttons. I'm always collecting ornate and nicely decorated ones.
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Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.
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I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.
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Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.
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This is a coup for commissioner Bud Selig. I'm surprised it's as good as it is.
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I don't like to read the Internet; I'm not aware of what's going on.
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My philosophy is always to hire the best from the best.
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What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?
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As a general rule, moderate levels of arousal facilitate deployment of skills, whereas high arousal disrupts it. This is especially true of complex activities requiring intricate organization of behavior.
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It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves.
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I view Al Jazeera as a very serious journalistic outfit. They have proven to observers around the world that they are serious and objective. They will have to, at a P.R. level, prove to the American public that that is the case. And I think that over time they will succeed at doing that.
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The passions are the voice of the body.
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Water has an endless horizon; there is no limitation when you look out into the water. There's nothing to interfere with the mind's eye projecting itself as far as it can possibly imagine. I suppose it's the same way people in the Midwest feel about watching amber waves of grain or endless rows of cornfields. There is something exhilarating about it.
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Taxation of private property, or the regulation of such property so as to reduce its value, can become in effect a form of servitude.
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The librarians know the secrets, not the historians
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Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.
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I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want to say and do.
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A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful.
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I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.
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I was glad I did, except when I was wandering around in my real life with this big red Afro. I looked like Ronald McDonald.
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Enslavement to your own weakness - be it an addiction to alcohol, or to a woman or to fame - it's degrading, and it means losing your dignity and your freedom.
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I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas - if I like these things, why should I apologize?
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I have a weakness for buttons. I'm always collecting ornate and nicely decorated ones.
