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“God knows far more about living a life of joy and blessings than we do.”
― Slow Brewing Tea
― Slow Brewing Tea
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“As for the use of the bomb, she would say, “It was war and we had to expect it.” And then she would add, “Shikata ga nai,” a Japanese expression as common as, and corresponding to, the Russian word “nichevo”: “It can’t be helped. Oh, well. Too bad.” Dr. Fujii said approximately the same thing about the use of the bomb to Father Kleinsorge one evening, in German: “Da ist nichts zu machen. There’s nothing to be done about it.”
― Hiroshima
― Hiroshima
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“Unconditional Love conquers all!”
― Love is the Answer God is the Cure
― Love is the Answer God is the Cure
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“I’d put myself in Hell for eternity if it let you be in Paradise for a day.”
― The Orphans of Kashmir
― The Orphans of Kashmir
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“Whoever is unable to stand up for an ideal with his person, his arm, his blood, is unworthy of that ideal, and no matter how intellectual one may become, what matters is that one remains a man.”
― The Magic Mountain
― The Magic Mountain
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