quotes about Byu

“It takes a person of great care and insight to watch for any abnormality in the green grass even while it grows abundantly and healthily.”

Source : "A Personal Matter". Book by Kenzaburo Oe, 1964.

“Barbarian --A Code of Conduct honored by all true barbarian warriors, requiring excellent coordination with weapons, closeness to nature, awkwardness with women, common sense, and completion of the mission.”

“You can't help the poor by being one of them.”

“Alexander to Tatiana: I love you as much as it is possible for a man to love a woman.”

“I consider myself a person like everyone else, and I take my time writing my records because I feel like it captures more of who I am. You have a much greater chance of hitting on themes and points...that could play into someone else's life in a larger way.”

“In all our actions, God considers the intention: whether we act for Him or for some other motive.”

“If a man is in any sense a real mathematician, then it is a hundred to one that his mathematics will be far better than anything else he can do, and that it would be silly if he surrendered any decent opportunity of exercising his one talent in order to do undistinguished work in other fields. Such a sacrifice could be justified only by economic necessity of age.”

“We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.”

Source : George Lakoff, Mark Johnson (1999). “Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought”, p.18, Basic Books

“Democracy is an internal subject of the developing society. There are fundamentals of democracy, and they should be understood universally in different countries.”

“Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings.”