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Brave young American men climbed the rugged slopes of Korean mountains and fought in homesickness and desperate weariness for the sake of a people strange to them and for reasons they scarcely understood, even when they yielded up their lives. With such noble impulse and final sacrifice, let the past be forgot, except for what it teaches for the future.
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Oh, there is a loneliness which befalls me now and then and it is something more than death.
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How can school help you with the land?" he asked. An old grandfather leaned out of the shadows to make answer. "Learning clears the mind," he said, "and books open the spirit of man to heaven and to the earth." "Do you know how to read?" Il-han asked. The old man touched his wrinkled eyelids. "These two eyes can see only the surface of what life is."
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We must learn to live with danger, " he now said to Kino. "Do you mean the ocean and the volcano cannot hurt us if we are not afraid?" Kino asked. "No," his father replied. "I did not say that. Ocean is there and volcano is there. It is true that on any day ocean may rise into storm and volcano may burst into flame. We must accept this fact, but without fear. We must say, 'Someday I shall die, and does it matter whether it is by ocean or ..
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It is easy to destroy, but it is hard to create. Do not destroy what your brother creates.
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And then she grew uneasy and full of gloom and thought to herself that if the child were joy yet was it a new gate for sorrow to enter by, too, and so is every child...
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Rennie was off again to go with his friends to a motion picture.
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Yes, but there was the land. Money and food are eaten and gone, and if there is not sun and rain in proportion, there is again hunger.
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The country she had taken for granted as her own, where she had been born, whose language alone she spoke, had rejected her and despised her.
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There in that land of mine is buried the first good half of my life and more. It is as though half of me were buried there, and now it is a different life in my house.
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But the boy only muttered bitterly,
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if China is not our suzerain!
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Heaven in its mercy says when a woman is forty, 'Now, poor soul and body, the rest of your life you shall have for yourself. You have divided yourself again and again, and now take what is left and make yourself whole again,
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She is tired to the heart," Ying muttered. "She is tired because in this great house all feed on her, like suckling children."
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the Western contingent and took the two leaders captive, and then seized all who were with them. The flag was torn and stamped into the dust, the captives were imprisoned and put to torture for their boldness in daring to invade the country. In great joy this good news was carried back to the capital. Once again the Western men were routed. The Emperor praised Tzu Hsi heartily and gave her a gold coffer filled with jewels. Then he announced..
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your sons
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It was not enough that she had never loved him. Love had nothing to do with responsibility.
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Nothing is destroyed, only changed.
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The less intelligent and civilized of the human race continue to reproduce as a matter of course with either no, or at most very little, thought to the future overpopulation and resulting famine or anything else. They go on, generation after generation, reproducing merely because it is their nature to do so. The more intelligent and civilized members of human society, on the other hand, are using birth-control methods in their effort to con..
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Wyeth was perhaps stupid. No, he was not stupid, he was surrounded and isolated by comfort.
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This is one of the main reasons I wished to come to America. I wished to see with my own heart if it would be different and it is not. Even here in New York, and I understand it is true of every major city in this vast and beautiful land, there is a Chinatown and a Latin quarter and an Italian section and a Negro neighborhood and blockbusters and riots and all of that as your own fearful civil war continues even one hundred years after it i..
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she returned full of talk about the streets, wondering at sights which others would not notice and seeing beauty in strange places.
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She shook her head. "I don't know one pretty young man from the other," she declared."
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That is what I hate most about this war game. It cuts off communication between peoples. We cannot ask questions and so we cannot get answers.
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But O-Lan returned to the beating of his clothes and when tears dropped slowly and heavily from her eyes she did not put up her hand to wipe them away; only she beat the more steadily with her wooden stick upon the clothes spread over the stone.
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man and after him two others, one nicknamed the Hawk, because he had a very curious hooked
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want to go where my children never hear that a man's color dooms him and that because a woman is black, she is not a woman but a female.
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Lucinda's foolish words stuck in his mind like a flung dagger he could not pull out. They'd be in him always, maybe.
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But is strength comfort for a woman?
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Day by day beneath the opulence of this city Wang Lung lived in the foundations of poverty upon which it was laid.
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and when the hour is come that has been set for each of us before ever we can walk or talk, then what need of mourning?
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Books he would always learn from, for people, great people, put the best of themselves into books. Books were a distillation of people. But people would be his teachers, and people were not in schoolrooms. People were everywhere.
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I think not everyone can see the whole picture. It has long been said we each see what we look for. You and I, we look at land and think of seed and harvests. A builder looks at the same land and thinks of houses, and a painter of its colors. The priest sees men only as those who need to be saved, and so naturally he sees most clearly those who need to be saved.
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They were young no more, their passion spent unused, but the memory of love remained eternal. Indeed, her mellowed heart was more tender now than ever toward him and there was nothing left that she could not forgive him.
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women are so strange and their tempers are uncertain, and mothers are the strangest of all, for they see fears and harms about their children where there are no such things.
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Who rules well is always hated.
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There in the silence of her own heart, she prayed the goddess to enlighten her and teach her mercy, and she prayed that Sakota might awaken to the grace of mercy shown her so that life could be saved. Strengthened by her prayers, the
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after the ancient ondul fashion.
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With increasing passion she loved beauty, for beauty, she told herself, and only beauty, was pure and good and worthy of her love.
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I do not say this is a decree," she wrote, her beautiful writing brushing the page with firm yet delicate strokes. "Let it be greeting and invitation, a hope that we may meet again with quiet hearts and wise minds. Come, then, before the ceremonies for my sixtieth birthday. Let us spend an hour together before we mingle with the Court."
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Pakdusan, Mount of Eternal Snow,
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truebone" family,"
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