#iv

The alternative scene, for a couple years now, has been taken seriously and that's a cool thing. I don't think it's exploded or anything, but I think it's pretty cool that it still exists, it's still affecting people. ↗

— Bob Odenkirk

#alternative #anything #been #cool #cool thing

How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it! ↗

— Hortense Odlum

#been #bewildered #death #face #face reality

Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war. ↗

— William Odom

#civil war #destroyed #going #knew #once

After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

#article #categorical #central #constitution #declare

As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

#continually #different #family #grew #half

Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

#even #lives #new #now #old

I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

#i #mine #novel #representing #sufferings

In the recent years there have been criticisms levelled against Japan suggesting that she should offer more military forces to the United Nations forces and thereby play a more active role in the keeping and restoration of peace in various parts of the world. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

#active role #against #been #criticisms #forces

Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

#asian countries #been #countries #had #history

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach. ↗

— Roger von Oech

#benefits #fail #failure #first #gives