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Daisaku Ikeda Quotes

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: japanese
Birth: January 2, 1928

Topics

History Past Shape Historical Forces

When you use Facebook, you're always logged in, and your identity and relationships - to others, to content, to apps and services - are assets Facebook can use to customize your experience (oh, and your ads).

Experience Identity You Relationships

Statehood is not a model for economic development; it is simply a way to organize a federation. What statehood does in fiscal and economic terms is apply uniform rules of the game to all states.

Anibal Acevedo Vila

Game Rules Uniform Development Way

If you look at Kirsten Dunst's performance in 'Melancholia,' which I think is absolutely wonderful - it's not even in the text, because she doesn't say much; it's all in her eyes. She doesn't have to explain what she's feeling. You just feel it.

Stellan Skarsgard

Eyes Performance Think You Look Say

The whole kind of post-World War I settlement that formed the modern Middle East is in danger of collapsing, and we can - we, the United States, you know, the preeminent power in the world - we can say that we want to ignore that, but how long can we avert our gaze? And how long can we stay out?

Power War World Ignore Long You

Christina Ricci

Work Out Work Out

The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.

World United Greatest Relief Stingy

Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or 'disappearance' to be carried out by their officials with impunity.

World Secret Out Torture Committed

It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.

Drawing Career Possible Approach

'Bum's Rush' is a piece about timing, and everything that's in the piece needs to be with the piece. If people are missing, or marking, or unable to use their voices, the impulses that prompt the action are lost, and its logic crumbles.

People Action Logic Lost Timing

Looking back at my earlier pictures, I think that the work is very much coming from the same place. I have gone through a period of challenging myself with a complicated idea to currently challenging myself with the idea of simplicity.

Work Myself Simplicity Looking Back

I know there's bands that might write something that sounds like The Smiths, and they'll go, 'Oh, it sounds like The Smiths, we've got to make it sound not like The Smiths.'

Go Know Sound Write Something Got

Insurance and funding traditionally drive capital investment. But in a world based on access, not ownership, the duration, value, cost and extent of financial services is distinctly different.

Value World Drive Financial Cost

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