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Kenzaburo Oe

"The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia."

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Donna Grant

"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."

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Donna Grant

"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."

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Donna Grant

"No holidays, no country."

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Donna Grant

"Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy."

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Donna Grant

"A nation aimlessly drifting away from God is a nation for which prayer is a rudder and praise is a sail. And it is the man or woman on their knees that builds the former and gives wind to the latter."

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Donna Grant

"Every nation must have prayerful men and women to intercede for the country's well-being."

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Donna Grant

"The desired modernization and rationalisation of Turkey will never be realised till the day the Modern Turks of AtatA1?4rk come to power because only modern and rational minds can create a modern and a rational country!"

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Donna Grant

"America; a country that was discovered is now a discovery and making discoveries! America is America not because of the name America, but because of the great hands and minds who made the name America be America!"

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Donna Grant

"In this country, when you finish second, no one knows your name."

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Donna Grant

"Basically I am a private individual who has concerns about his country and who has resources that give me the privilege - and responsibility - to do something to help my country if I can."

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Kenzaburo Oe
"In the recent years there have been criticisms levelled against Japan suggesting that she should offer more military forces to the United Nations forces and thereby play a more active role in the keeping and restoration of peace in various parts of the world."

Peace

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Kenzaburo Oe
"I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large."

Literature

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Kenzaburo Oe
"Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters."

Constitution

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Kenzaburo Oe
"By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors."

Reading

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Kenzaburo Oe
"From another point of view, a new situation now seems to be arising in which Japan's prosperity is going to be incorporated into the expanding potential power of both production and consumption in Asia at large."

Power

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Kenzaburo Oe
"The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia."

Nation

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Kenzaburo Oe
"After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped."

Suffering

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Kenzaburo Oe
"After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution."

War

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Kenzaburo Oe
"The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic."

Criticism

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Kenzaburo Oe
"Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries."

History

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