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“Japan admitted the Imperial Army ordered the building of these brothels and the trafficking of the women. And now that it's been 70 years, there are only 46 remaining comfort women still alive in South Korea. So also in this deal, Japan is going to pay 1 billion yen - that's about 8 million U.S. dollars - to provide social services and health care to the surviving victims.”
Source : "South Korea, Japan Reach Major Deal On Wartime Sex Slaves". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. December 28, 2015.
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“It is the worst oppression, that is done by colour of justice”
Source : Edward Coke (1817). “The Second Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England Containing the Exposition of Many Ancient and Other Statutes”, p.48, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
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“Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.”
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“There is too little courtship in the world. ... For courtship means a wish to stand well in the other person's eyes, and, what is more, a readiness to be pleased with the other's ways; a sense on each side of having had the better of the bargain; an undercurrent of surprise and thankfulness at one's good luck.”
Source : Vernon Lee (1907). “Hortus Vitae: And Limbo”
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“My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I'm not a sad man, and I don't believe I sadden anyone else.”
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“...what will be the outcome of this kind of thing? Holton predicts that "at best, the result could be Muslim enclaves in Western communities in which sharia supercedes native law." Or "at worst, sharia could start to creep into our lives and laws, changing our way of life little by little over time." That would be entirely in line with the stealth jihad goal of Islamizing American society.”
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“Mengistu seemed to symbolize the revolution. He was the baria, the slave who overthrew the master, the member of the conquered tribe who got even with the conquerors, the poorly educated son of a servant who rose against the intellectual elite.”
Source : "Ethiopia: Empire in Revolution". Book by David Ottaway and Marina Ottaway, 1978.
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“My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple for me. It is a place where the surfaces seem to have significance, where the sounds and odors carry meaning that transfers from the past and bridges to the future.”