Mariko,san, it was your karma to die gloriously and live forever. Anjin-san, my friend, it is your karma never to leave this land. It is mine to be Shogun.
It’s all so simple, Anjin-san. Just change your concept of the world.
I'll thank you to remember that not so many years ago men were burned at the stake just for saying the earth went round the sun!
Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more surely than any bullet!
As to Vietnam, no one here thinks President Kennedy can handle that either, much as we admire him personally.
Any history book will tell them China always crosses her borders to protect her buffer zones when any invader approaches
They set out to acquire—steal—our industrial secrets. Curiously our free-world media fail dismally to point out that all Soviet advances are based originally on one of our stolen inventions or techniq...
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What can I do to help thee? he asked.Believe there is a tomorrow.
Sometimes full agreements, delicate agreements, should not be reduced into writing.
Secrets never leave you in peace, however much you wish or pray.
Only merchants have money to waste, and what are they but parasites who create nothing, grow nothing, make nothing but feed off another's labor?
Men need to whisper secrets, Lady. That’s what makes them different from us – they need to share secrets, but we women only reveal them to gain an advantage.
Isn't man but a blossom taken by wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this Land of the Gods real and everlasting?
How can a man be so brave and so stupid, so gentle and so cruel, so warming and so detestable -- all at the same time?
He had long since discovered that peaceful sleep could provide the answer to most puzzles, and if not, what did it really matter? Wasn’t life just a dewdrop within a dewdrop?
Godrot opium, he thought. But he knew that his life was inexorably tied to opium—and that without it neither The Noble House nor the British Empire could exist.
For what is life to a samurai? Nothing at all. All life is suffering, ?
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All the people have a right to vote, and no single man ever controls the destiny of any nation, either by divine right or by right of stupid votes of a stupid electorate.