Tsugumi Ohba · 195 pages
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“Start looking around you... and all you see are people the world would be better off without.”
― Tsugumi Ohba, quote from Death Note, Vol. 1: Boredom
“The name of the human who is written in this note shall die.”
― Tsugumi Ohba, quote from Death Note, Vol. 1: Boredom
“I AM RIGHTEOUS!! I'm the hero who's liberating people from fear. I'm the savior who's going to be like a god of this perfect new world!”
― Tsugumi Ohba, quote from Death Note, Vol. 1: Boredom
Tsugumi Ohba
Born place: Tōkyō, Japan
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“The popular concept–that we should each determine our own morality–is based on the belief that the spiritual realm is nothing at all like the rest of the world. Does anyone really believe that? For many years after each of the morning and evening Sunday services I remained in the auditorium for another hour to field questions. Hundreds of people stayed for the give-and-take discussions. One of the most frequent statements I heard was that 'Every person has to define right and wrong for him- or herself.' I always responded to the speakers by asking, 'Is there anyone in the world right now doing things you believe they should stop doing no matter what they personally believe about the correctness of their behavior?' They would invariable say, 'Yes, of course.' Then I would ask, “Doesn’t that mean that you do believe there is some kind of moral reality that is "there" that is not defined by us, that must be abided by regardless of what a person feels or thinks?' Almost always, the response to that question was silence, either a thoughtful or a grumpy one.”
― Timothy J. Keller, quote from The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
“I am afraid to try for more light lest it mean more dark.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, quote from The Wandering Fire
“changing an institution’s environment to increase the sense of control among its workers, students, patients, or other users was one of the most effective possible ways to increase their sense of engagement, energy, and happiness.”
― Jonathan Haidt, quote from The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
“Things change. Life changes. Nothing stays the same.”
― Terry Brooks, quote from A Knight of the Word
“There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.”
― Gregory Maguire, quote from Out of Oz
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