Yabuki Kentarou Quotes & Sayings

The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be broken only by massive foreign aid from the more prosperous industrial nations of the world. This was in keeping with a more general vision on the Left that people were essentially divided into three categories - the heartless, the helpless, and wonderful people like themselves, who would rescue the helpless by playing Lady Bountiful with the taxpayers' money. — Thomas Sowell

Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette. — Barbara Januszkiewicz

Humility. Seek it within yourself, be as sceptical of your own superiority as your intellect is sceptical of the superiority of things other than itself. Turn your critical faculties inward, with ruthless diligence, and by that you will understand the true meaning of courage. It is the kind of courage that sees you end up on your knees, but with the will to rise once more, to begin it all over again. — Steven Erikson

If she had touched me," he said very softly, "I would have been hers and not my own, not ever again. I wanted her to touch me but I could not let her. No cat will. We let human beings caress us because it is pleasant enough and calms them - but not her. The price is more than a cat can pay. — Peter S. Beagle

You're making yourself too important. Guilt comes from feeling we're at the center of the universe. We're not. — Gloria Whelan

One expects philosophy to promote, and even to accelerate, the practical and technical business of culture by alleviating it, making it easier. {9} — Martin Heidegger

Loving her has become a part of my religion, a gentle mantra with every beating of my heart. I cannot imagine its Ragnarok without wilting. — Thomm Quackenbush

Religion is the pious worship of God. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Personally, I've never done things just for money. — Glenn Turner

Sometimes you don't need words to feel better; you just need the nearness of your dog. — Natalie Lloyd

I have a theory about why and how all this has happened to you.
Instead of having to earn it, you have been handed the presidency, the same way you've come by everything else in your life. Money and name alone have opened every door for you. Without effort or hard work or intelligence, or ingenuity, you have been bequeathed a life of privilege ... So it's no wonder you think you deserved to be named President. You didn't earn it or win it- therefore it must be yours! — Michael Moore