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Singlemindedness is all-powerful.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

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Yamamoto, Tsunemomo. 葉隠 [Hagakure]. c. 1716.

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Always do what is right...because it is right.

Letters from Iwo Jima

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Letters from Iwo Jima. Directed by Clint Eastwood, DreamWorks Pictures/Malpaso Productions/Amblin Entertainment/Warner Bros., 2006.

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Any mercy and people will take advantage of you.

Letters from Iwo Jima

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Letters from Iwo Jima. Directed by Clint Eastwood, DreamWorks Pictures/Malpaso Productions/Amblin Entertainment/Warner Bros., 2006.

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Revenge is never a straight line. It's a forest and like a forest it's easy to lose your way...to get lost...to forget where you came in.

Kill Bill: Volume 1

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Kill Bill: Volume 1. Directed by Quentin Tarantino. A Band Apart, 2003.

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Ceaselessly the river flows, and yet the water is never the same, while in the still pools the shifting foam gathers and is gone, never staying for a moment. Even so is man and his habitation.

Kamo no Chomei

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Kamo no Chomei. 方丈記 [An Account of My Hut]. c. 1212.

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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.

Akio Morita

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Morita, Akio and Edwin M. Reingold and Mitsuko Simomura. Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony. ‎E. P. Dutton, 1986.

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The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known.

Yoshida Kenko

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Yoshida Kenko. Tsurezuregusa [Essays in Idleness]. c. 1332, ch. 13.

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Yoshida Kenko. Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenko, translated by Donald Keene. Columbia University Press, 1998, ch. 13.

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Though I grieve, there is no help;
Vainly I long to see her.
Men tell me that my wife is
In the mountains of Hagai-
Thither I go,
Toiling along the stony path;
But it avails me not,
For of my wife, as she lived in this world,
I find not the faintest shadow.

Kakinomoto no Hitomaro

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Man'yōshū. Compiled by Otomo no Yakamochi. c. 759, bk. 2, poem 210-2.

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Anonymous. 1000 Poems from the Manyoshu: The Complete Nippon Gakujutsu Shinko Translation, selected and translated by Iwanami Shoten. Dover Publications, 2005, bk. 2, poem 210-2.

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The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

Masanobu Fukuoka

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Fukuoka, Masanobu. 自然農法わら一本の革命 [One-Straw Revolution]. Hakujusha, 1975.

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