A Quote by Haruki Murakami

Mental acuity was never born from comfortable circumstances.

Haruki Murakami

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Haruki Murakami
Japanese - Writer
Born: January 12, 1949

To young people born under the weird planet of the SAT, intelligence was equated with agility, with raw acuity. It produced a certain sort of person of which I was a typical specimen: the mental contortionist, able to rise to almost every challenge placed before him, except the challenge of real self-knowledge.

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I have found that when calculating what no one has calculated before, like my observing sessions on the mountain, my mental acuity peaks. Ironically, these are the times that I would flunk the reality check normally reserved for mental patients and dazed boxers: What is your name? What day is it? Who is the president of the United States?... I do not know, and I do not care. I am at peace with my equations as I connect to the cosmic engines that drive our universe.

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Woodrow Wilson

Always, in all circumstances, wear comfortable shoes. You never know when you may have to run for your life.

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Shawn Mullins

Never forget that the circumstances of your life for tomorrow are molded by your mental conduct today.

Emmet Fox

When the euro was born, it was born in the wrong economic circumstances.

John Major

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