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“One who aspires to greatness should read and study, pursuing the True Way with such a firm resolve that he is perfectly straightforward and open, rises above the superficialities of conventional behavior, and refuses to be satisfied with the petty or commonplace.”

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Yoshida Shoin

Yoshida Shoin was a Japanese intellectual and samurai from the late Edo period. He is known for his contributions to the Meiji Restoration and his influential teachings on Western learning and military strategy. more

“When I consider the state of things in our fief, I find that those who hold positions and receive official stipends are incapable of the utmost in loyalty and patriotic service. Loyalty of the usual sort-perhaps, but if it is true loyalty and service you seek, then you must abandon this fief and plan a grass-roots uprising.”

Ifs States Plans Position Roots Loyalty Grass Officials Abandon Patriotic Usual Incapable Uprising

Author:Yoshida Shoin

“The Infinite has to be a relative concept. Go any distance: an infinite space means that there is more to be explored.”

Mean Space Concepts Infinite Distance Relative Infinite Space

Book:The Infinite Cosmos: Questions from the frontiers of cosmology

Source: The Infinite Cosmos: Questions from the frontiers of cosmology

“Our knowledge of physics only takes us back so far. Before this instant of cosmic time, all the laws of physics or chemistry are as evanescent as rings of smoke.”

Law Physics Rings Smoke Instant Chemistry Cosmic Laws Of Physics

Book:The Infinite Cosmos: Questions from the frontiers of cosmology

Source: The Infinite Cosmos: Questions from the frontiers of cosmology

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