People respond to these disasters in terms of their own experience. Unless the disaster has struck them personally, their circumstances, their environment, it is dismissed as a superficial thing.

[http://www.ibe.unesco.org/publications/ThinkersPdf/fukuzawe.pdf Article about Fukuzawa Yukichi from UNESCO publication]

Joji Nakata (Eyes of Heaven)

[The Japanese auto industry should] catch up with America in three years. Otherwise the Japanese auto industry will never stand on its own.

All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people.

Constitution

Tōru Ōkawa (All Star Battle, Eyes of Heaven)

[to Peter] You did the right thing in cutting the rope. Any good climber woud've. If Royce had had the knife, hed've done it himself.

Tinu Anand - Masterji

Major Rasul: You must try the tea, its very good. Indian of course. We may be at war with them, but there's no point in overreacting. Their tea's the best.

He who outrages benevolence is called a ruffian: he who outrages righteousness is called a villain. I have heard of the cutting off of the villain Chow, but I have not heard of the putting of a ruler to death.

Một mình lưỡng lự canh chầy,
Đường xa nghĩ nỗi sau này mà kinh.

Đau đớn thay phận đàn bà!
Lời rằng bạc mệnh cũng là lời chung.

జ్ఞానమే పవిత్రతకు మూలం.

Zenkichi Yoneyama — Lt. Kiyoshi Sato

After the scare, after the storm