116. "Buffett became rich only by chance."

"Although the method for making a large profit from equity investment or foreign exchange trading does not exist, there is no end to the number of sellers of such a method. There are people who have become extraordinarily rich by equity investment like Warren Buffett, or course, but they became so only by chance."

From "Essence of Monetary Crisis" written by Yukio Noguchi and published by Toyo Keizai Inc.

115. "The impossibility of taxing the people, in proportion to their revenue, have given occasion to the invention of taxes upon consumable commodities."

"The impossibility of taxing the people, in propotion to their revenue, by any capitation, seems to have given occasion to the invention of taxes upon consumable commodities. The state not knowing how to tax, directly and proportionably, the revenue of its subjects, endeavours to tax it indirectly by taxing their expence, which, it is supposed, will in most cases be nearly in proportion to their revenue. Their expence is taxed by taxing the consumable commodities upon which it is laid out."

From "The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith

114. "Once a customer considers a brand reliable and attractive, he continues to purchase goods with the brand without considering prices and functions of such goods...

... In short, a citizen does not necessarily take a rational action in order to maximize his own benefit.”

From "Social Shift" written by Tohru Saito and published by Nikkei Inc.

113. "Japanese do not have an established custom of inviting friends to their homes...

...simply because their homes have traditionally been small, crowded, and considered inappropriate for entertaining. Instead, it became the practice to invite people to public dirinking places and restaurants--one of the reasons Japan has more restaurants and drinking places per capita than any other nation."

From "Etiquette Guide to Japan" by Boye Lafayette de Mente, Tuttle Publishing

112. "A thing acquired by violence can be retained by violence alone, while one aquired by truth can be retained only by truth."

By Mahatma Gandhi

From "Gandhi - A Life" written by Yogesh Chadha and published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

111. "Be suspicious of -ize; let your ear and your eye guide you...

... Never tack -ize onto a noun to create a verb. Usually you will discover that a useful verb already exits. Why say "moisturize" when there is the simple, unpretentious word moisten?"

From "The Elements of Style" by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White, published by Allyn and Bacon.

110 "No matter how different in age or income, a man and a woman in a romantic relationship must be basically on an equal footing...

You don't need to feel inferior or guilty unless you are doing anything unfaithful such as having an affair... Of course, you don't need to be overly confident to say "You must be very happy in a relationship with me." Rather, it is necessary for you to admit that you have some faults unreservedly, and to mend some of them if necessary. However, a man or a woman in a relationship basically has a right to think, "I'm on an equal footing with my lover. Each one of us have good points and bad points." If one of you have to curry favor with the other, you should think there is a problem in the relationship."


From "A Book for Loving Your Weak Self" written by Rika Kayama and published by Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc.

109. "There are many who are trapped by a stereotypical view that economy should be boosted by the government. Unworthy to live in a market economy."

From "Unmasking Deflation" written by Kohsuke Motani and published by Kadokawa Group Publishing Co., Ltd.

108. "I do not force myself to make friends. It can only lead to disappointment."

From "Norwegian Wood" written by Haruki Murakami and published by Kodansha Ltd.

107. "Nothing makes a person more sensitive than a power trend."

From "A figurehead in the dark" by Shohei Fujisawa, Bungeishunju Ltd.

106. "A relationship lasts long only when ...

... each party refrains from going into the other party's situation deeply, and keeps the connection cool like a flow of water."

From "Business Swordsman 14" written by Shotaro Ikenami and published by Shinchosha.

105. "A truly clever person does not have a prejudice against something which is labled as weird. She rather checks it with her own eyes to understand it...

... On the other hand, a foolish person takes the label for granted, without questioning it at all. I think it is quite obvious which type of person gains more."

From "The reason why I did away with Channel 2" written by Hiroyuki, and published by Fusosha Publishing Inc.

104. "We do not cure illnesses--instead, they have the potential to cure us."

From "Speaking of Sadness" written by David. A. Karp and published by Oxford University Press

103. "Self-absorption is consistent with the emphasis on self-satisfaction fostered by capitalism in general and advertising in particular."

From "Speaking of Sadness" written by David A. Karp and published by Oxford University Press

102. "Hobbies are especially important for reducing the stress...

... that may be linked to the lowered self-esteem of those who are temporarily or permanently unable to return to work."

From "Adult Lukemia" written by Barbara Lackritz and published by Patient-Centered Guides

101. "The main cause of the relapse of leukemia is the remaining leukemic cells' acquisition of tolerance to medicine...

... The most biggest challenge of the present leukemia treatment is to overcome this tolerance."

From "Fundamental Textbook of Leukemia" edited by Ryuzo Ohno and published by Nagai Shoten Co., Ltd.

100. "Even a healthy person will grow old someday, and time when the stairs of a station will look like a precipice to her will come."

From "Diary of A Leukemia Patient" by Shunsuke Kusama, The Tokyo Shimbun

99. "Those who have not found their true wealth are beggars."

“A beggar had been sitting by the side of a road for over thirty years. One day a stranger walked by. “Spare some change?” mumbled the beggar, mechanically holding out his old baseball cap. “I have nothing to give you,” said the stranger. Then he asked: “What’s that you are sitting on?” “Nothing,” replied the beggar. “Just an old box. I have been sitting on it for as long as I can remember.” “Ever looked inside?” asked the stranger. “No,” said the beggar. “What’s the point? There’s nothing in there.” “Have a look inside,” insisted the stranger. The beggar managed to pry open the lid. With astonishment, disbelief, and elation, he saw that the box was filled with gold.

I am that stranger who has nothing to give you and who is telling you to look inside. Not inside any box, as in the parable, but somewhere even closer: inside yourself.

“But I am not a beggar,” I can hear you say.

Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth. They are looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love, while they have a treasure within that not only includes all those things but is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.”

From "The Power of NOW" by Eckhart Tolle, Namaste Publishing and New World Library

98. "The world will not much longer tolerate the unemployment which is inevitably associated with present-day capitalistic individualism."

"The authoritarian state systems of to-day seem to solve the problem of unemployment at the expense of efficiency and of freedom. It is certain that the world will not much longer tolerate the unemployment which, apart from brief intervals of excitement, is associated---and, in my opinion, inevitably associated---with present-day capitalistic individualism. But it may be possible by a right analysis of the problem to cure the disease whilst preserving efficiency and freedom."

From "THE GENERAL THEORY OF EMPLOYMENT, INTEREST AND MONEY" by John Maynard Keynes, BN Publishing

97. "In learning Chinese, you cannot expect progress without mastering pronunciation of the language."

"In learning Chinese, you cannot expect progress without mastering pronunciation of the language. Of course, I do not think there is any language which does not require practicing pronunciation well, but it seems that pronunciation is especially important in Chinese."

From "ABC of Pronunciation of Chinese" by Keiji Ueno, Japan Broadcast Publishing Co., Ltd.