Ogyu Sorai quotes
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“The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.”
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Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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“It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.”
Source : Adam Haslett (2002). “You are Not a Stranger Here”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group
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“Today our achievements are so vast that the whole world has become interested in them.”
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Source : Agnivesh's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2004.
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“You don't have to be doing vocal acrobatics or singing all over the scale to have soul.”