Yasutani Jiko Quotes & Sayings

Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that we can become problem solvers. — Kathryn Lasky

We can create a different future - one simple, beautifully mundane, daily decision at a time. — Patti Digh

My mother scared herself with her own queerness, and from that moment on I ceased to be her companion. — Kurt Vonnegut

fiction has enabled us not merely to imagine things, but to do so collectively. We can weave common myths such as the biblical creation story, the Dreamtime myths of Aboriginal Australians, and the nationalist myths of modern states. Such myths give Sapiens the unprecedented ability to cooperate flexibly in large numbers. — Yuval Noah Harari

Every man has a coward and hero in his soul. — Thomas Carlyle

Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it. — Barack Obama

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"Yes, as in baaaa. — Gail Carriger

The light of love sees no walls. — Suzy Kassem

This diary will tell the real life story of my great-grandmother Yasutani Jiko. She was a nun and a novelist and New Woman7 of the Taisho era.8 She was also an anarchist and a feminist who had plenty of lovers, both males and females, but she was never kinky or nasty. And even though I may end up mentioning some of her love affairs, everything I write will be historically true and empowering to women, and not a lot of foolish geisha crap. So if kinky nasty things are your pleasure, please close this book and give it to your wife or co-worker and save yourself a lot of time and trouble. 4. — Ruth Ozeki

There is so much chaos and dysfunction going on with the federal government that Dallas can't wait any longer for federal help. — Laura Miller

The real world. The very notion is absurd. Worlds and everything in them are made real by the stories that inhabit them. — Jonathan Auxier

The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination. — Charles Darwin

Poverty is about people lacking the tools they need to get on in life. And solving it is about tackling educational failure, antisocial behaviour, debt problems and addiction, and of course it's about work. — Theresa May

When there's a teacher who embodies presence, then it seems to come for a while through that opening. The teacher is an opening to presence. — Eckhart Tolle

I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep. — Bette Davis