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Read quote“Let us not mark this anniversary with fine-sounding words, but with deeds.”
Read quote“Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, / And souls are ripen'd in our northern sky.”
Read quote“No one will deliver freedom to the woman, except the woman herself.”
Read quote“If someone asks what the heart of Yamato is, I would answer: the mountain cherry blossoms glowing in the morning sun.”
Read quote“This little picture gave me the first glimmerings of atmosphere.”
Read quote“Difference is the essence of humanity.”
Read quote“The essence of obedience consists in the fact that a person comes to view himself as the instrument for carrying out another person's wishes.”
Read quote“Making a film is an art. And so if you want to make good films, you have to trust one another.”
Read quote“I never thought I would ever be a great player.”
Read quote“Anything and everything involving ideas, including theology, is intimately bound up with the existing social situation in at least an unconscious way.”
Read quote“Prayer is man's side of converse with God; it is speech Godward.”
Read quote“Because we created it, we can change it.”
Read quote“The dream of a unified and free Burma has always haunted me.”
Read quote“The key to success is action.”
Read quote“He that is not aware of his ignorance, will be only misled by his knowledge.”
Read quote“I have to thank you very sincerely for the excellent quotation you were good enough to improvise for my picture.”
Read quote“I would have them taught facts and things, rather than words or signs.”
Read quote“I am a poet and not a politician.”
Read quote“Ma découverte interesse toutes les nations, et c’est pour toutes les nations que je veux faire et mon histoire et mon apologie.”