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Trilingual: 靖国神社
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Profiles
I must follow the inscrutable exhortations of my soul
Criticism quotes
The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else’s responsibility until I’m ready to eat it. Joel Salatin
Self-actualisation|Toward a Psychology of Being| Abraham H. Maslow* book
Self-actualizing people are not acutely worried about jeopardizing their relationships with other people, they’re freer to engage with their spontaneous impulses and emotions – and thus freer to express their deeper selves.
Favourite vocabularies
Dispassionate
Courage•liberty•freedom| peace quotes the second part
When the fear of jail disappears, repression puts heart into the people Gandhi The opposite to courage, in our particular age,is automaton conformity Rollo May The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one’s conviction Rollo May Power tends to get confused with repression Olivia Wilde Truth isContinue reading “Courage•liberty•freedom| peace quotes the second part”
Capitalism related quotes
Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilisation. Calvin Coolidge
Christopher Columbus
That’s history. You can’t judge a guy in the 15th century by modern standards.. because it’s tradition. Ordinary people need their heroes and their founding myths. Can’t we just keep celebrating the way we’ve been doing for a century without having to delve into all this serious research? It’s not like anyone is actually celebratingContinue reading “Christopher Columbus”
New York Subway
The train shed of New York Subway of Grand Central Terminal is well over 100 years old, respect to the craftsmanship and work ftom 1920s which has endured for this long, now it’s beginning to show its age This short video shows the current condition of Grans Central Terminal(water infiltration, steel deterioration, deterioration of theContinue reading “New York Subway”