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    Eiji Yoshikawa
    “The world is always full of the sound of waves. The little fishes, abandoning themselves to the waves, dance and sing, and play, but who knows the heart of the sea, a hundred feet down? Who knows its depth?”
    ― Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi
    tags: novel
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    Eiji Yoshikawa
    “It is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor.”
    ― Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi
    tags: predecessor, success, successor
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    Eiji Yoshikawa
    “Think what you like. There are people who die by remaining alive and others who gain life by dying.”
    ― Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era
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    Eiji Yoshikawa
    “The line between life and death is not thicker than an eyelid.”
    ― Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi
    tags: death, frailty, impermanence, life
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    Eiji Yoshikawa
    “To him, any place could serve as home—more than that: wherever he happened to be was the universe.”
    ― Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era
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    Eiji Yoshikawa
    “A wanderer with no ideal, no sense of gratitude for his independence, is no more than a beggar! The difference between a beggar and the great wandering priest Saigyō lies inside the heart!”
    ― Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era
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    Eiji Yoshikawa
    “When Takuan had sentenced him to confinement, he had said, “You may read as much as you want. A famous priest of ancient times once said, ‘I become immersed in the sacred scriptures and read thousands of volumes. When I come away, I find that my heart sees more than before.”
    ― Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era
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    Eiji Yoshikawa
    “If you become self-conscious about the proper way to drink, you won’t enjoy the tea. When you use a sword, you can’t let your body become too tense. That would break the harmony between the sword and your spirit. Isn’t that right?”
    ― Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    “Pirates are evil? The Marines are righteous? These terms have always changed throughout the course of history! Kids who have never seen peace and kids who have never seen war have different values! Those who stand at the top determine what's wrong and what's right! This very place is neutral ground! Justice will prevail, you say? But of course it will! Whoever wins this war becomes justice!”
    ― Donquixote Doflamingo
    tags: eiichiro-oda, one-piece, pirate
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    “Whether we wound or are wounded, the blood that flows is red.”
    ― Eiichiro Oda
    tags: hope, one-piece, pirates, respect
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  • #12
    “Justice is based on values. And those change every generation.”
    ― Eiichiro Oda
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    “Don't forget to smile in any situation. As long as you are alive, there will be better things later, and there will be many.”
    ― Eiichiro Oda
    tags: belmeil, one-piece
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    “When do you think people die? When they're shot through the heart with a pistol? ...No. When they have an uncurable disease? ...No. When they drink soup made from a poisonous mushroom? No! When they are forgotten! Even if I die, my dream will come true. The hearts of the people will be cured..!”
    ― Eiichiro Oda
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    “Never Forget. A country is it's people.- King Nefertari Cobra”
    ― Eiichiro Oda
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    “Maybe sometimes it takes more courage not to fight.

    -Makino”
    ― Oda Eiichiro
    tags: courage, luffy, makino, one-piece, onepiece, pirates
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    Takehiko Inoue
    “There is no light for those who do not know darkness.”
    ― Takehiko Inoue
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    Takehiko Inoue
    “Invincible is just a word”
    ― Takehiko Inoue , Vagabond, Vol. 8
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    Takehiko Inoue
    “Preoccupied with a single leaf... you won't see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree... you'll miss the entire forest. Don't be preoccupied with a single spot. See everything in it's entirety... effortlessly. That is what it means to truly "see.”
    ― Takehiko Inoue
    tags: vagabond
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    Sun Tzu
    “Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: deception, life, war
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    Sun Tzu
    “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: diplomacy, strategy, victory, war
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
    tags: education, mind, social-anxiety
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “Philosophy hasn't made any progress? - If somebody scratches the spot where he has an itch, do we have to see some progress? Isn't genuine scratching otherwise, or genuine itching itching? And can't this reaction to an irritation continue in the same way for a long time before a cure for the itching is discovered?”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
    tags: philosophy, progress
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn’t absurd, e.g., to believe that the age of science and technology is the beginning of the end for humanity; that the idea of great progress is delusion, along with the idea that the truth will ultimately be known; that there is nothing good or desirable about scientific knowledge and that mankind, in seeking it, is falling into a trap. It is by no means obvious that this is not how things are.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
    tags: apocalypse, history, progress
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “Put a man in the wrong atmosphere and nothing will function as it should. He will seem unhealthy in every part. Put him back into his proper element and everything will blossom and look healthy. But if he is not in his right element, what then? Well, then he just has to make the best of appearing before the world as a cripple.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
    tags: alienation, atmosphere, environment, society, world
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “People nowadays think that scientists exist to instruct them, poets, musicians, etc. to give them pleasure. The idea that these have something to teach them - that does not occur to them.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
    tags: art, music, poetry, science
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened & will happen to the human soul, but a description of something that actually takes place in human life.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
    tags: humanism
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
    tags: calmness, equanimity, faith, religion, serenity, spirituality
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “If you already have a person's love no sacrifice can be too much to give for it; but any sacrifice is too great to buy it for you.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
    tags: appreciation, love, sacrifice
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “If you have a room which you do not want certain people to get into, put a lock on it for which they do not have the key. But there is no point in talking to them about it, unless of course you want them to admire the room from outside! The honorable thing to do is put a lock on the door which will be noticed only by those who can open it, not by the rest.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
    tags: communication, introverted, solitude, wittgenstein
    13 likes



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