"We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom."

-- Shigeru Yoshida

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“All I remember about the examination is that there was a question on Sturm's theorem about equations, which I could not do then and cannot do now.”
“Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.”
“I lived in great poverty as a child and young woman, and I used to think of money and how to make money as a means to get away from the constant struggle to survive - as freedom. Now I know it isn't freedom. It's not a solution, but a new problem. It comes with its own challenges and tremendous obligations.”
“What the dead don't know piles up, though we don't notice it at first. They don't know how we're getting along without them, of course, dealing with the hours and days that now accrue so quickly, and, unless they divined this somehow in advance, they don't know that we don't want this inexorable onslaught of breakfasts and phone calls and going to the bank, all this stepping along, because we don't want anything extraneous to get in the way of what we feel about them or the ways we want to hold them in mind.”

Source : "Over the Wall" by Roger Angell, www.newyorker.com. November 19, 2012.
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“You can acquire chic and elegance, but style itself is a rare thing.”

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