Abandon the illusion of Great Japanism.

Even if militarism and imperialism were global trends of the Meiji state, the cultivation of democracy must not be overlooked.

There was no road on earth to begin with. When many people walk the same way, a road comes into being.

-- Lu Xun

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

-- Oscar Wilde

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

-- George Orwell

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.

-- Muhammad Ali

From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.

-- Napoleon

In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to recall.

-- Miguel de Cervantes