"It is sobering to recall that though the Japanese relocation program, carried through at such incalculable cost in misery and tragedy, was justified on the ground that the Japanese were potentially disloyal, the record does not disclose a single case of Japanese disloyalty or sabotage during the whole warâ€¦"

-- Henry Steele Commager

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“I guess forgiveness, like happiness, isnâ€™t a final destination. You donâ€™t one day get there and get to stay.”
“One reason that we're so adaptable is that humans are excellent tool users and homebuilders. When our environment doesn't provide us with something that we need, we try to make it ourselves out of whatever is available, whether that's rock or wood or ore or DNA.”

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“Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.”
“We don't back off obstacles and tough situations, we use them to make us stronger.”
“Children, temples are places where, at least for a short while, the remembrance of God is kindled in our hearts which otherwise are totally immersed in worldly transactions.”
“I've heard stories about me as a kid. My dad got me a T-shirt that said "here comes trouble," and when I ask my mom what I was like, she just sighs with this weary tone and says, "Oh, you were really busy."”
“A man who treats his women like a princess is proof that he was raised by a queen.”
“there are many ways of eating, for some eating is living for some eating is dying, for some thinking about ways of eating gives to them the feeling that they have it in them to be alive and to be going on living, to some to think about eating makes them know that death is always waiting that dying is in them.”

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