Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
The perks of working in Japan are that you might go for two weeks every three or four months, so you do work an abbreviated schedule. But you really make up for the abbreviated schedule by how hard you have to fight, how much you've got to be in shape.