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1 " The mistakes of history bring relentless reprisals. "
― Pearl S. Buck , The Living Reed: A Novel of Korea
2 " In silence they lay close, without passion, but closer than passion could bring them they lay close. "
3 " It is easy to destroy but hard to create. Remember that, when you want to destroy something.” The "
4 " the superior man leads not by violence or by coarse physical acts but by the pure intelligence of a wise mind. "
5 " The tears of the old come as easily as the tears of children, "
6 " he believed that to answer a child’s question before it is asked is to destroy natural curiosity. "
7 " Can one spit on a smiling face?” he inquired; or he said, “Vengeance cannot last a night’s sleep. "
8 " It was strange how these poems came to him nowadays, the distillation of his private emotions, of his disillusionment, of his solitude, of his yearning for a future in which, nevertheless, he could not believe. "
9 " To belong to one was to deny himself the privilege of belonging to all. "
10 " The gift he had been given was sometimes heavy to bear, the ability always to understand why the other person was as he was. Wounded, yes, but never angry, and there were times when he longed to feel fierce personal anger. "
11 " Nations, like individuals, can only learn by their own individual experience.” Yul-chun "
12 " Attachment,” Buddha had said, “is the cause of grief. "
13 " We must save ourselves by doing what is godlike and we will become godlike. "
14 " Somewhere in the periphery of his mind and consciousness was the warning that Russia must be watched. For hundreds of years Russia had wanted Korea for its seacoast, its treasures of metals and minerals hidden in the mountains, its fisheries, the power of its rushing rivers and high tides. He did not believe that the heart of Russia was changed. Her ambitions might even be sharpened and intensified by a new government of hungry men, whose ancestors had been half-starved peasants. It was now their turn to grow fat and grow rich. "
15 " 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. "
16 " It is easy to destroy, but it is hard to create. Do not destroy what your brother creates. "
17 " if China is not our suzerain! "
18 " after the ancient ondul fashion. "
19 " Pakdusan, Mount of Eternal Snow, "
20 " truebone” family, "
