The truth is, Japan is headed for crisis. We are in the hands of greedy businessmen and weak politicians. Such people will see to it poverty grows every day.
Kazuo Ishiguro
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MEHMET MURAT ILDAN If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all p... HENRI J.M. NOUWEN The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board. D.M. TIMNEY Japan has only 100m people. Asia has 4bn. At least one-third, maybe nearly half, will become middle ... TADASHI YANAI The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there ... WINSTON CHURCHILL Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD I think people are distrustful of politicians and are looking for someone who is telling the truth w... MOHAMED ELBARADEI The 'all for me and only me' mentality is the most destructive force on earth. THE TRUTH Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes! DEYTH BANGER Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597 The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shel... THOMAS R. KELLY A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of tru... LEWIS MUMFORD We're LOVE! We came straight outta LOVE & that's where we're headed. From love to love - is what... ABHISHEK KUMAR Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do SOTONYE ANGA Japan needs a weak yen. We have argued that case for months, and finally it is proving of merit. DENNIS GARTMAN Nothing is more egregious than greedy politicians. SONIA RUMZI We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak gr... OTTO VON BISMARCK People are drooling for the truth. They want honesty from politicians, and they're not getting it. KINKY FRIEDMAN It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN The losers are the people of Florida. We were trying to get a chance to take some of the power away ... BEN WILCOX Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill... KURT VONNEGUT You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals. C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is e... CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE Truth is always in front of us. Sometimes, the mankind are too weak and scared to step forward throu... HANNANI HUSNA MARZUKI Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY They've really got a crisis that they've never seen before on their hands. Emerging markets are coll... CAROLINE LEVY To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ... GARY F EVANS... Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I find it interesting that I don't see too many female truth seekers anymore. What I do see are narc... FATHOM If you talk to most businessmen, they'll say that what they do is for the public good, but you k... P. J. O'ROURKE I don't have a desire to do reality. Because my truth is not what people are responding to. My t... NIECY NASH The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc... CHRISTIAN BOBIN The adoption is starting to pick up as we hoped. Every day, as the user base grows and the DVDs are ... BILLY MCNAIR I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people ... KAZUO ISHIGURO What nonsense. This country is in crisis, and since politicians are incapable of creating jobs, they... LUIS AROCHO The truth is, life grows and evolved inside of you and, it has nothing to do with any other person e... ROSHAN SHARMA Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM See the world for what it is. BEAUTIFUL! ANTHONY T. HINCKS It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our ... SAINT TERESA OF AVILA Debt, we've learned, is the match that lights the fire of every crisis. Every crisis has its own... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci... DEYTH BANGER I speak the truth. Not everyone who says they are ready to hear it really are. MONIKA ZANDS People see poverty all around them in India, but they are desensitized or immune to it. I came to th... MOHNISH PABRAI What we are starting to see are the motors running. Momentum is very important in any recovery and t... CRAIG JAMES I'm not an Emontional, but how??? I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has... DEYTH BANGER We are confident that the Supreme Court will soon see the direction that this country is headed and ... BENJAMIN TODD JEALOUS I think people are hungry for new ideas and leadership in the world of poverty alleviation. Most dev... LEILA JANAH If we would only testify to the truth as we see it, it would turn out
that there are hundreds, thous... LEO TOLSTOY A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON People tend to look on the beliefs of the past as being primitive and unintelligent, yet we are seei... JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
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