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Quotes by Historian
"Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama."
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"The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving."
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"There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash."
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"For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals."
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"The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it."
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"I love all sides of the work but that doesn't mean it isn't hard."
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"We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone."
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"Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites."
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"The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness."
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"What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself."
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"Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists."
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"Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment."
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"Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands."
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"Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures."
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"He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it."
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"A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times."
Fool,
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"Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive."
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"If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it."
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"The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you."
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"To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious."
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"But having said all of that, that still doesn't account for a lot of the increase in popularity which stems, I think, from Lincoln's personal characteristics."
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"It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly."
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"There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that."
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