海堂尊

警察関連の人たちは「会議非公開」が大好きです。警察に対する不信感を述べさせておいて、非公開にする ... 他人に厳しく、自分に甘く。 ... 会議を公開しない理由がわかりません。自由討論が行われたといっても、メンバーは法律家と法医学者で固められているので、結論は警察人員の増員に終わるでしょう。

...

しかもこのニュースも「全国医政関係主管課長会議で、実施要綱と交付要綱の案を説明した」とお役人主体のクローズ世界の出来事。情報公開、透明性の確保というのは、厚生労働省でも警察庁も、かけ声倒れだということがよくわかります。官僚は他者には情報公開を強要しますが、自らの情報公開にはとても消極的です。

Андре́й Никола́евич Колмого́ров

Я принадлежу к тем крайне отчаянным кибернетикам, которые не видят никаких принципиальных ограничений в кибернетическом подходе к проблеме жизни и полагают, что можно анализировать жизнь во всей её полноте, в том числе и человеческое сознание, методами кибернетики. Продвижение в понимании механизма высшей нервной деятельности, включая и высшие проявления человеческого творчества, по-моему, ничего не убавляет в ценности и красоте творческих достижений человека.

Guillaume Duprat

Mark McGuinness

Many creative people lead apparently boring working lives, sticking to the same routine every day. They do this because they understand instinctively what neuroscience has now confirmed – routine is a key that unlocks creative inspiration.

Jim Jarmusch

"You know, last year before I met your cousin, I never know you were from Hungary or Budapest or any of those places."

"So what?"

"I thought you were an American."

"Hey, I'm as American as you are."

[Silence. They begin driving into Cleveland]

"Does Cleveland look a little like, uh, Budapest?"

"Eddie, shut up."

Sofia Coppola

Bob Harris (Bill Murray) and Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson)

"It gets a whole lot more complicated when you have kids."

"It's scary."

"The most terrifying day of your life is the day the first one is born."

"Nobody ever tells you that."

"Your life, as you know it ... is gone. Never to return. But they learn how to walk, and they learn how to talk ... and you want to be with them. And they turn out to be the most delightful people you will ever meet in your life."

jetBlue

Everyone's true to something. And we're true to you.

...

You told us what you wanted. We listened.

酒見賢一

... 異性とは自らに無い力を持つ存在であり、ある意味では禁忌であり危険な存在である ...

Gail and Eva

"Do you see him?"

"Yes. Why?"

"Don't you know him?"

"No. I don't know him."

"How come you don't know him? Don't you watch TV? That's Bart Simpson."

Bradley Dowden

Nobody has ever built a time machine that could take a person back to an earlier time. Nobody should be seriously trying to build one, either, because a good argument exists for why the machine can never be built. The argument goes like this: suppose you did have a time machine right now, and you could step into it and travel back to some earlier time. Your actions in that time might then prevent your grandparents from ever having met one another. This would make you not born, and thus not step into the time machine. So, the claim that there could be a time machine is self-contradictory.

Igor Novikov

... if one were to travel back in time, the laws of nature, or other intervening cause, would simply forbid the traveler from doing anything that could later result in their time travel not occurring. For example, a shot fired at the traveler's grandfather will miss, or the gun will jam, or misfire, or the grandfather will be injured but not killed, or the person killed will turn out to be not the real grandfather, or some other event will occur to prevent the attempt from succeeding. No action the traveller takes to affect change will ever succeed ...

Laura Sanders

Any theory of time travel has to confront the devastating “grandfather paradox,” in which a traveler jumps back in time and kills his grandfather, which prevents his own existence, which then prevents the murder in the first place, and so on.

Карельштейн Дора

Щедрость, доброта, чистота и сострадание, готовность к помощи и защите – вот составляющие Любви.
Она имеет свои волны и частоты, на которые невольно настраиваются все те, кто любит или жаждет Любви.
...
И если сегодня никто ещё не настроился на Вашу волну, продолжайте любить и излучать.
К Вам придёт Ваша награда в виде ответной Любви. Ждите и не теряйте Надежды.
Любовь витает в воздухе.

越人歌

今夕何夕兮
藆洲中流
今日何日兮
得与公主同舟
蒙羞被好兮
不誓诟耻
心几烦而不绝兮
得知公主
山有木兮木有枝
心悦君兮君不知
君不知

邱耕田

当远古初民具有了自我意识的时候，人类中心主义开始萌生，只是到了近代工业社会以后，它才具有了绝对性的特征并发展成为具有相对完备的理论形态和在人类实践活动中发挥着越来越大影响作用的一种精神现象。但生态危机的出现和人类生态系统的形成，在某种意义上宣告了这种绝对人类中心主义的破产。在人类走向21世纪的历史转折时期，相对人类中心主义将以其先进性、科学性、合理性而逐步成为人类精神生活领域里的一种重要思潮。这种思潮对人类社会追求可持续发展和全面进步，无疑会发挥重大的促进作用。

Stephen Jay Gould

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
___

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

Revolver Maps

Ефимов Павел

Спасибо за то,

Что ты есть на свете,

Спасибо за то,

Что ты любишь меня…

Нет у меня никого

На Земле тебя дороже,

У меня есть

Ты только,

Любимый и дорогой!

И грустно мне стало,

Потому что тебя нет

Сейчас рядом со мной…

Но я буду ждать

Тебя всегда,

Милый мой,

Потому что я знаю,

Что мое сердечко живет

В сердце твоем!

颜回

不迁怒、不贰过、不伐善、不施劳。

一箪食、一瓢饮、在陋巷、。。。

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

J'espère prouver que la nature possède les moyens et les facultés qui lui sont nécessaires pour produire elle-même ce que nous admirons en elle.

Thomas Henry Huxley

The deepest sin of the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

ジェイ・モートン

弾よりも早く。機関車よりも力は強く。ビルディングなどはひとっとび。なんだあれは。鳥だ。ロケットよ。あっ、スーパーマン。そうです、スーパーマンです。遠い星から地球へやってきた奇跡の男。人間の能力をはるかに超えたスーパーマン。川の流れを変え鋼鉄をひねるくらいは朝飯前。彼はクラークケントと名のって正体を隠し、メトロポリスの新聞社デイリープラネットの記者となって、正義と真実を守るため日夜戦い続けているのです。

Jay Morton

Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Look! Up in the sky. It's a bird. It's a plane. It's Superman! Yes, it's Superman - strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman - who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands, and who disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a neverending battle for Truth, Justice, and the American Way.

Haruki Murakami

「空白が生まれれば、何かがやってきて埋めなくてはならない。みんなそうしておるわけだから」

「説明しなくてはそれがわからんというのは、つまり、どれだけ説明してもわからんということだ」

Haruki Murakami

「空白が生まれれば、何かがやってきて埋めなくてはならない。みんなそうしておるわけだから」

「説明しなくてはそれがわからんというのは、つまり、どれだけ説明してもわからんということだ」

諸井薫

そもそも老人という概念はなんなのか。大体年齢などというものを数えるのは文明社会の慣わしであって、古代は年などどうでもよかったのである。ただ一人前の現役の男として通用するかしないかが問題で、それ以外は問おうとはしなかったものだ。

C. P. Snow

A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is the scientific equivalent of: Have you read a work of Shakespeare's?

Inga-Britt Ahlenius

I am concerned that we are in a process of decline and reduced relevance of the Organization. In short - we seem to be seen less and less as a relevant partner in the resolution of world problems. This inevitably risks weakening the United Nations' possibilities to fulfil its mandate. Ultimately that is to the detriment of peace and stability in the world. This is as sad as it is serious.

Harrison, Abramovitz & Harris

Goodreads

Have you ever wanted a better way to:

• Get great book recommendations from people you know.
• Keep track of what you've read and what you'd like to read.
• Form a book club, answer book trivia, collect your favorite quotes.

Stefan Zweig

One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.

Serge Bloch, Davide Cali

I can't wait

... for a good-night kiss.

Caitlin M. Fausey

In English, if I knock this cup off the table, even accidentally, you would likely say, "She broke the cup." However, in Japanese or Spanish, intent matters. If one deliberately knocks the cup, there is a verb form to indicate as much. But if the act were an accident, the speaker would essentially say, "The cup broke itself."

("コップが割れた" in Japanese; "La taza se rompió" in Spanish.)

Lera Boroditsky

... the mechanics of using a language such as English, which tends to assign an agent to an action regardless of the agent's intent, also tends to more vividly imprint that agent in the speaker's memory. Other linguistic differences help young children in aboriginal cultures achieve powers of navigation that would confound a Harvard professor.

Boroditsky's own journey began in Belarus, where she was the only child of parents who were both engineers. At 12, she says, she spoke Russian and struggled with Belarusian and Ukrainian. She was learning English in school when her parents got the opportunity to emigrate. A close friend had preceded them by three months and settled in Skokie, Ill., where they went as well. Boroditsky's background and passion for argument earned her the nickname "Red Fury" in high school, she says with a laugh. She recalls thinking even as a teenager about the degree to which language could shape an argument and exaggerate the differences between people.

Luna Filipovic

Spanish-speaking suspect’s non-agentive (and appropriate in Spanish) description of events (“se me cayó”, roughly “to me it happened that she fell”) was translated into English for the broader court into the agentive (and appropriate in English) “I dropped her.”

Pieter Brueghel the Elder

Badan Barman, John Hubbard

Though the digital environment is built as a system, which can be used by its ultimate end user directly from their desktop pc, the role of librarian cannot be overlooked. In digital environment also the librarian and information scientist will be needed for packaging and repackaging of information, for electronic publishing, for reference purpose, to advise the user about the strategy to identify relevant electronic sources etc. thus the librarian will be more or less a hypertext engineer. In the new environment it will be very difficult for the librarian to decide what should be organized? How to give citation? How to organize the collection? Etc because the new environment will be really challenging one for the librarian to decide who are author who are publisher and who are user? . In the new environment any one who has access to the network of digital libraries can be a publisher by merely posting messages to an online discussion group or by other means. A virtual environment is really open for all.

Hzivsen

DLF

Digital libraries are organizations that provide the resources, including the specialized staff, to select, structure, offer intellectual access to, interpret, distribute, preserve the integrity of, and ensure the persistence over time of collections of digital works so that they are readily and economically available for use by a defined community or set of communities.

Andrew Lass

Rather than thinking of the library as an institution with a definable organizational structure, a mission, and a set of rules that help to fulfill it — in other words, as a local tradition into which a new and different tradition is being introduced — it seems more productive to view the library, together with its history, as a confluence of complex interlocking networks of books, religious wars, world views, political agendas, and influential individuals, and as being essentially porous and unbounded.

Christine L. Borgman

Information technologies are converging, computer networks are extending their reach, digital libraries are proliferating, and the user community is growing exponentially. These developments combine to make vastly more information resources available to many more people in many more places. Some predicted that computer networks and digital libraries would lead to the end of books, bookstores, libraries, and archives, to a proliferation of virtual classrooms, and to employees working great distances from their employers. Although profound social changes are taking place, few of these effects have occurred to the extent predicted or in the ways anticipated. Book publishers and bookstores are thriving, online and off. Libraries, archives, and museums are taking leading roles in providing access to their resources in digital forms. Distance-independent learning is still in experimental stages as its providers try to find the combination of content, delivery mechanisms, and students most amenable to new forms of instruction. Meanwhile, admission to "traditional" colleges and universities remains as competitive as ever. Telecommuting is an established employment model, but only for certain jobs, employees, and employers. These new technologies are being adopted, but they are continually being adapted to suit the needs of individuals and organizations.

Vicki L. Gregory

• Is digitized information preserved (preservable) information?
• Who should archive an electronic information resource?
• Who should be concerned with preservation issues?

Daniel Greenstein, Suzanne E. Thorin

Funding—especially external grant funding—is critically important to the startup digital library. Because it reduces the risk inherent in highly uncertain and technologically dependent activities, external grant funding is a mechanism that is particularly appropriate for the experimental orientation of embryonic digital library programs. Grant funding also gives fledgling programs national stature and local legitimacy and helps secure subsequent funding from external and internal sources. Securing external funding depends to some extent, however, on the ability to write convincing grant proposals and on the use of marketing and promotional techniques that many libraries have not yet developed and are not yet associated with their digital library programs.

柴田トヨ

ねえ　不幸だなんて
溜息をつかないで

陽射しやそよ風は
えこひいきしない

夢は
平等に見られるのよ

私　辛いことが
あったけれど
生きていてよかった

あなたもくじけずに

新聞

東山動物園からニホンザルが逃げ出した。

上野動物園で、世界で最も北に生息するのサルを公開しようとサル山に放したところ、このうちの１匹がサル山の塀を越えて逃げ出した。

オランダの動物園でゴリラが脱走した。

天王寺動物園からサルが逃げ出した。。。１週間近い逃亡生活で少しやつれ気味だが、健康状態に問題はないという。

DELOS

Grigori Perelman

To put it short, the main reason is my disagreement with the organized mathematical community... I don't like their decisions, I consider them unjust.

(According to Interfax news, Perelman turned down the Millenium prize in June 2010 because he considers the prize unfair and Hamilton deserves as much credit as he does for the prize.)

Jonathan Lethem

I reread John Barth's second novel, The End of the Road, last week, looking for traces of my own far-off inspiration; I'd first read the book six years earlier, before starting As She Climbed Across the Table, and I recalled it as an influence without particularly remembering how it had influenced me. Or exactly how much. Rereading it I was struck by how much I'd forgotten in almost every sense--the tone and texture of the book, as well as the plot, and how deeply it had reached into me and shaped the fiction I was about to write.

John Barth

I discovered by happy accident the turn-of-the-century Brazilian novelist Joaquim Machado de Assis... Machado, himself much under the influence of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy--taught me something I had not quite learned from Joyce's Ulysses and would not likely have learned from Sterne directly, had I happened to have read him: how to combine formal sportiveness with genuine sentiment as well as a fair degree of realism.

長谷川澯二郎

現実は精巧に出来た幻である --> 現実は精巧に造られた夢である

___________________

目の前の美を素直に見る

Vadim Kotelnikov

Maggie Wittlin

The researchers found that while straight men are only aroused by females of the human variety, straight women are equally aroused by all human sexual activity, including lesbian, heterosexual and homosexual male sex, and at least somewhat aroused by nonhuman sex.

杉原厚吉

Andreas Paepcke

One difficulty is that the same information sometimes needs to be presented differently for different people. The following quote from a marketing team illustrates this:
We spend a lot of time trying to figure out ways to represent the information so that management can understand it. Okay, that's the most difficult thing is, say you have this list of features... but management wants to see a quick and dirty diagram that shows them: "Oh, it's very obvious to me that we need to implement x, y and z and we'll be fine."
Just as information must be stored in ways that make it usable for varying purposes, it must be possible to transform information to make it usable for varying people.

Michael Keller

As the world turns more and more, the items that appeared in physical form in previous decades and centuries are appearing in digital form. ... They write their papers online, and they read articles online, and many, many, many of them read chapters and books online. ... I can see in this population of students behaviors that clearly indicate where this is all going.

Helen Josephine

In the past five years, most engineering periodicals have been moved online, making their print versions pretty obsolete — and books aren't doing much better.

蓮沼文三

心が変われば態度が変わる。

態度が変われば習慣が変わる。

習慣が変われば人格が変わる。

人格が変われば運命が変わる。

Wayne Dyer

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

___

You'll see it when you believe it.

___

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

FAO

Robert Capa

五木寛之

どんな人でも、自分の母国を愛し、故郷を懐かしむ気持ちはあるものだ。しかし、国を愛するということと、国家を信用するということとは別である。

私はこの日本という国と、民族と、その文化を愛している。しかし、国が国民のために存在しているとは思わない。国が私たちを最後まで守ってくれるとも思わない。

国家は国民のために存在してほしい。だが、国家は国家のために存在しているのである。

私の覚悟したいことの一つはそういうことだ。

国を愛し、国に保護されているが、最後まで国が国民を守ってくれる、などと思ってはいけない。国に頼らない、という覚悟をきめる必要があるのである。

国民としての義務をはたしつつ、国によりかからない覚悟。最後のところでは国は私たちを守ってはくれない、と「あきらめる」ことこそ、私たちがいま覚悟しなければならないことの一つだと思うのだ。

五木寛之

どんな人でも、自分の母国を愛し、故郷を懐かしむ気持ちはあるものだ。しかし、国を愛するということと、国家を信用するということとは別である。

私はこの日本という国と、民族と、その文化を愛している。しかし、国が国民のために存在しているとは思わない。国が私たちを最後まで守ってくれるとも思わない。

国家は国民のために存在してほしい。だが、国家は国家のために存在しているのである。

私の覚悟したいことの一つはそういうことだ。

国を愛し、国に保護されているが、最後まで国が国民を守ってくれる、などと思ってはいけない。国に頼らない、という覚悟をきめる必要があるのである。

国民としての義務をはたしつつ、国によりかからない覚悟。最後のところでは国は私たちを守ってはくれない、と「あきらめる」ことこそ、私たちがいま覚悟しなければならないことの一つだと思うのだ。

上出洋介

公務員の家に育った12 歳の岸恵子は、1945 年5 月29 日、横浜で大空襲に合い、燃える空気の中を逃げ廻ったという。戦火の中を走る彼女に、誰かが「子供は防空壕に入っていろ」と怒鳴った。しかし、彼女は「どうせ死ぬなら穴の中はいやだ」と、大人たちの制止を振り切り、公園の木に登って燃える横浜の夜を見つづけたのである。そして翌日になって、爆風で全滅し、多くの友人を失った防空壕の横に立ち、「もう絶対大人のいうことは聞かないぞ」と決心したそうだ。

Marcel Achard

L'amour, c'est être toujours inquiet de l'autre.

Salvatore Adamo

Si tu étais la mer - Moi je serais rivière - Et mes jours couleraient vers toi - Si tu étais pays - Mes bras seraient frontières - ... - Si tu étais... - Mais tu es plus encore... - Tu es, tu es - Et tu remplis mes jours - Tu es de vie - Tu es d'amour - Tu es.

山口百恵

鈴木大拙

仏教では「一」を立てるということをしないのです。「一」という数字はやはり相対次元であって、絶対ではないからです。仏教では「一」ではなく「不二」というのです。

Sir Ernest Cassel

When I was young, people called me a gambler. As the scale of my operations increased I became known as a speculator. Now I am called a banker. But I have been doing the same thing all the time.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Aimer, ce n'est pas se regarder l'un l'autre, c'est regarder ensemble dans la même direction.

Igor Stravinsky

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

ココ・シャネル

Les seuls beaux yeux sont ceux qui vous regardent avec tendresse.

Coco Chanel

Le luxe, ce n'est pas le contraire de la pauvreté mais celui de la vulgarité.

三島由紀夫

日本はなくなって、その代わりに、無機的な、からっぽな、ニュートラルな、中間色の、富裕な、抜目がない、或る経済大国が極東の一角に残るのであろう。それでもいいと思っている人たちと、私は口をきく気にもなれなくなっているのである。

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear …

Émile Coué de la Châtaigneraie

• Toute idée que nous avons dans l’esprit tend à devenir une réalité dans l’ordre du possible. Ainsi l’idée de guérison peut produire la guérison. Ou bien encore, sur le plan psychologique, considérer comme facile une chose à réaliser en facilite effectivement la réalisation.
• Notre être inconscient ou imaginatif, qui constitue la partie cachée de notre moi, détermine nos états physiques et mentaux. Il est en réalité plus puissant que notre être conscient et volontaire, qu’il englobe entièrement, et c’est lui qui préside à toutes les fonctions de notre organisme et de notre être moral. Donc chaque fois qu’il y a conflit entre l’imagination et la volonté, c’est toujours l’imagination qui l’emporte.
• Imagination et volonté doivent par conséquent travailler en synergie : lorsque la volonté et l’imagination sont en accord, elles ne s’additionnent pas l’une à l’autre, mais leurs forces se multiplient l’une par l’autre.
• L’imagination peut être conduite par le moyen d'une autosuggestion méthodique.

Fender

Gibson

Zeytinia

Howard Johnson, Billy Moll, Robert A. K. King

You scream, I scream, we all scream for ice cream!

(三三七拍子)

谷川俊太郎

いまのたいようとおなじたいようが

あおぞらのまんなかでぎらついていて

いまのかぜとおなじかぜが

くさのうえをさあっとふいていた

Richard Brautigan

An old woman sits

In a rocking chair

On the front porch

Of an old house.

The old woman watches

The stars turn on their

Lanterns in the clear,

Twilight sky above

The dark shadows

Of the fir trees

On the hill.

The old woman remembers

So many twilights.

Лев Толстой

Любовь - это бесценный дар. Это единственная вещь, которую мы можем подарить и все же она у тебя остается.

Frigyes Karinthy

How could man and woman understand each other? They want entirely different things: eachy wants the other.

Виктор Франкл

Любовь - это неодолимое желание сделать счастливым любимого человека.

Любовь - это когда тебе ничего не нужно от любимого.

Любовь - это единственное чувство, которое не зависит ни от чего.

Любовь - это основа мира.

Любовь - это когда один человек не может быть счастливым, если другой не счастлив.

Любовь - это cимпатия и понимание двух людей.

Игорь Стравинский

Нет на свете силы более могущественной, чем любовь.

Фридеш Каринти

Ну как женщина и мужчина могут понять друг друга, ведь они оба хотят разного: мужчина хочет женщину, а женщина хочет мужчину.

J.M.G. Le Clézio

Pourquoi écrit-on ? J’imagine que chacun a sa réponse à cette simple question. Il y a les prédispositions, le milieu, les circonstances. Les incapacités aussi. Si l’on écrit, cela veut dire que l’on n’agit pas. Que l’on se sent en difficulté devant la réalité, que l’on choisit un autre moyen de réaction, une autre façon de communiquer, une distance, un temps de réflexion.

川本三郎

おかみさんは、頭にかぶっていた手拭いをとって深々と頭を下げてくれた。私の知らなかった家内がいる。近所の人に親しく記憶されている。そのことがうれしかった。

Pascale Arguedas

Il est où Johathan ? Ça fait une heure que je l'attends, crie sa mere dupuis la cuisine.

野呂邦暢

書物はたんなる活字のいれものではない。紙質、見返しの色、背文字のかたち、紙の匂いと手ざわり、重さ、それらが一つになって書物らしい書物となる。コピイはいわばぬけがらのようなもので、文章は同じでも何か肝腎の要素がないのである。書物を書物たらしめるある種の匂いのようなものが。

Notorc

38-G minus 1 plus 10

Kris Kristofferson

Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose

Nothin', don't mean nothing hon' if it ain't free

Feeling good was easy, Lord, when Bobby sang the blues

Feeling good was good enough for me

Good enough for me and Bobby McGee

Spinoza

... lived quietly as a lens grinder, turning down rewards and honors throughout his life, including prestigious teaching positions, and gave his family inheritance to his sister ...

The chiefs of the council

Ban Ki-moon

Meeting Mr. Edward Norton, UN Goodwill Ambassador for Biodiversity
Meeting Mr. Joseph Deiss, President-elect of the 65th Session of the UN General Assembly
Meeting H.E. Mr. Datuk Anifah bin Haji Aman, Foreign Minister of Malaysia
Meeting Ambassador Hamid Al-Bayati of Iraq
Meeting H.E. Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel
Meeting Ambassador Ruhakana Rugunda of Uganda
Attending the Open Debate of the Security Council on Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict
Attending the AICESIS Board Meeting (International Association of Economic and Social Councils and Similar Institutions)
Attending the Secretary-General and Mrs. Ban bid farewell to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh
Attending the Reception for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh
Meeting with Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
Attending the Visit of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, Remarks
Meeting Mr. Steffan de Mistura, Special Representative for the Secretary-General for Afghanistan and the Head of UNAMA
Meeting Mr. Sagong II (Chairman, Presidential Committee for the G20 Summit, Republic of Korea)
Attending the GA Plenary Meeting on the follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit regarding draft resolution (A/64/L.56)
Meeting with the Arab Troika: H.E. Mr. Nawaf Salam (Permanent Representative of Lebanon to the United Nations) H.E. Mr. Abdulrrahman...

Charles Doolittle Walcott

Administrative matters & routine with a little research work kept me busy most of day. Called on Prest. Wilson with Committee Nat. Acad. Sci. 12:45 P.M.

Pattie Bord

The next time I saw Eric, he turned up unexpectedly at Friar Park. George was away ? I don't know whether Eric knew that in advance ? and I was on my own. He said he wanted me to go away with him: he was desperately in love with me and couldn't live without me. I had to leave George right now and be with him.

Eric Clapton

Let's make the best of the situation
Before I finally go insane.
Please don't say we'll never find a way
And tell me all my love's in vain

George Harrison

Something in the way she moves
Attracts me like no other lover
Something in the way she woos me
...
Somewhere in the smile she knows
That I don't need no other lover
Something in her style that shows me
...
Something in the way she knows
All I have to do is think of her
Something in the things she shows me

Time or distance cannot touch the friendship of the heart.

Jill Pendley

To live in this single moment, this lightest breath, this softest touch, to be captured by this smallest, this briefest space of time, to be fully present, alive, consumed in this instant alone, this is truly living.

Oscar Wilde

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Saleem Raza

井上ひさし

この宇宙には４千億もの太陽が、星があると申します。それぞれの星が、平均１０個の惑星を引き連れているとすると、惑星の数は約４兆。その４兆の惑星のなかに、この地球のように、ほどのよい気温と、豊かな水に恵まれた惑星はいくつあるでしょう。たぶん、いくつもないでしょう。だからこの宇宙に地球のような水惑星があること自体が奇跡なのです‥‥‥。

水惑星といって、かならず生命が発生するとは限りません。しかし地球にあるとき小さな生命が誕生しました。これも奇跡です。その小さな生命が、数かぎりない試練を経て人間にまで至ったのも、奇跡の連続です。そして、その人間の中に、あなたがいるというのも奇跡です。こうして何億何兆もの奇跡が積み重なった結果、あなたも、わたしも、今、ここにこうしているのです。わたしたちがいる、今生きているというだけで、もうそれは奇跡の中の奇跡なのです。こうして話をしたり、誰かと恋だの喧嘩だのをすること、それもそのひとつひとつが奇跡なのです。人間は奇跡そのもの。人間の一挙手一投足も奇跡そのもの。だから人間は生きなければなりません。

小坂明子

もしも私が　家を建てたなら

小さな家を　建てたでしょう

大きな窓と　小さなドアーと

部屋には古い　暖炉があるのよ

真赤なバラと　白いパンジー

小犬の横には　あなたあなた

あなたがいてほしい

それが私の　夢だったのよ

いとしいあなたは　今どこに

Kalle Kniivilä

B. Steninul

内田樹

死者を「侵略者」として鞭打つために呼び出すものも、死者を「英霊」として顕彰するために呼び出すものも、死者の「顔」を見ようとしない点では、つまり「本当の戦争の話」を語らないという点では、同じ身振りを繰り返している。

この閉じられた言説空間からの脱出に向けて歩み出すことは可能だろうか。おそらく可能であると私たちは信じる。それは「裁き」と「赦し」を同時に果たしうる「物語」の力にもう一度だけ掛け金を置くことである。困難ではあるけれど、さしあたり私たちが最初の歩みを踏み出す道はそれしかない。

Grand Central

Susan Sontag

Not all violence is equally reprehensible; not all wars are equally unjust.