"The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out."

-- Iris Chang

#Book Quotes #Comfort Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.”
“From the very beginning, all of my films have divided the critics. Some have thought them wonderful, and others have found very little good to say. But subsequent critical opinion has always resulted in a very remarkable shift to the favorable. In one instance, the same critic who originally rapped the film has several years later put it on an all-time best list. But of course, the lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have.”
“To pray in the name of Christ is to pray as one who is at one with Christ, whose minid is the mind of Christ, whose desires are the desires of Christ, and whose purpose is one with that of Christ.”
“You must take a house beside the Physician. It will be a miracle if ye be the first sick that Christ hath put away uncured.”
“We weren't raised to take, we were raised to give the shirt off our back to anyone in need.”

Source : Song: Country Must Be Country Wide, Album: Halfway To Heaven, 2010
“There is a basket of fresh bread on your head, yet you go door to door asking for crusts.”
“Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.”

Source : In New York Times 13 Feb. 1959, p. 21
“What I love about the theatre is that it's always metaphorical. It's like going back to being a kid again, and we're all pretending in a room. Sometimes, when the pretending really works, I find it much, much more moving than something on film.”

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