Enson Inoue 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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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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I'm not the sort of person who wants to live my life doing just one thing. I like to go around and do as many things as possible.
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I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
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In the biographical novel, there's only one person involved. I, the author, spend two to five years becoming the main character. I do that so by the time you get to the bottom of Page 2 or 3, you forget your name, where you live, your profession and the year it is. You become the main character of the book. You live the book.
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In the past, I used to argue with those who didn't share my views. I felt this incredible need to 'make my point.' Now I live my life and do my best to be an example of what seems right to me.
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Live fast, die young.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a middle man - someone who is here to match people who need capital with people who have capital - and not position ourselves at the center of that by taking big positions on a trading stance.
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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
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We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.
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Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
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The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
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Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked.
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Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?
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Men want a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. That is what is written in their hearts. That is what little boys play at. That is what men's movies are about. You just see it. It is undeniable.
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Reality is what you can count on.
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The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.
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The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older.
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Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.
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Live as a man. Die as a man. Become a man.
