In winter, I'm a Buddhist,
And in summer, I'm a nudist.
- Joe Gould
"My Religion"
In fact the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.
- Oscar Wilde, aware in 1889 that popular conceptions about the country and its people are mostly fiction.
Not even 10% of what Japanese people are thinking is communicated overseas.
- Watanabe Tsuneo of CSIS
All foreign correspondents, whenever they desert statistics for judgments of opinion...become models of self-deception. They may call themselves, with proper gravity, ‘reporters’. But...they are nothing but quack psychiatrists who do not even know that this is the field they practise.
- Alistair Cooke
Where all news comes at second-hand, where all the testimony is uncertain, men cease to respond to truths, and respond simply to opinions. The environment in which they act is not the realities themselves, but the pseudo-environment of reports, rumors, and guesses.
- Walter Lippmann
We want...a revolution - a turning of the wheel, so that the state becomes once again the servant of the people, and not the other way around. We are the progressives now, comrades, (and) you the reactionaries.
- Daniel Hannan
If the textbook says, "It is well known that...", you can be sure that is a very good place to begin a research inquiry.
- Isaiah Bowman, geographer and former president of Johns Hopkins University
The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.
- Cicero (55 BC)
We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press. It is not we who silence the press. It is the press that silences us. It is not a case of the Commonwealth settling how much the editors shall say; it is a case of the editors settling how much the Commonwealth shall know. If we attack the press, we shall be rebelling, not repressing.
- G.K. Chesterton
You can see a lot by looking.
- Yogi Berra
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空 said
Billさん。
悲しすぎます。
かえってきて欲しいです。
ご家族の方の悲しみを思うと胸が張り裂けそうになります。
あなたを失ったことは日本にとって大きな損失です。
あなたの功績にいくら敬意を表しても足りません。
ありがとうございました。
21st Century Schizoid Man said
William Sakovich様:
日本人として生まれたことに、このブログを知ったことが加わって、やっと日本人に生まれてよかったと思えた部分があります。Billさん、あなたのしたことはその位の重みをもっています。
ありがとうございました。そして、あなたの思い(たとえ主張が完全に一致しなくても、あなたが日本に注ぎ続けてくれたその思いです!)を引き継いでいくことが、私の恩返しだと思っています。
絶対に将来、お会いできると思います。その時にはブルースやその他お互いに好きな音楽の話をしましょうね。
21世紀の精神異常者より。