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QOTD: " ... as members of the banner system, Manchus were universally obliged to serve as soldiers, in return for which they were paid a stipend by the state. Han, on the other hand, were obliged to pay taxes, but they were free from military duty." Manchus and Han by Edward J.M Rhoads

"But as judges we are neither Jew nor Gentile, neither Catholic nor agnostic." Felix Frankfurter (Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States)

QOTD: “Man, life’s going to keep pushing you around, but you have to keep playing.” Mozasu in Pachinko (novel)

QOTD: “When people we love are suffering, we want to make it better. But sometimes—often, in fact—you can’t make it better.” John Green in The Anthropocene Reviewed

QOTD: “If one is generously contracted 80 years, that amounts to 29,220 days on Earth. Playing that out, how many times then, really, do I get to look at a tree? 12,395? There has to be an exact number. Let’s just say it is 12,395. Absolutely, that is a lot, but it is not infinite, … Continue reading QOTD →

QOTD: “Winning isn’t everything; it’s the only thing.” Vince Lombardi

QOTD: ““Hope” is the thing with feathers -That perches in the soul -And sings the tune without the words -And never stops - at all” Emily Dickinson

QOTD: "Zhao Bingjun asserted that a hereditary military caste such as the banner people was incompatible with the constitutionalist regime China aspired to be." Manchus and Han by Edward J.M Rhoads

QOTD: “What makes the condition (Depression) intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come—not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute. If there is mild relief, one knows that it is only temporary; more pain will follow. It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.” William Styron in … Continue reading QOTD →

QOTD: "Hansu never told him to study, but rather to learn, and it occurred to Noa that there was a marked difference. Learning was like playing, not labor." Lee Min Jin, Pachinko (novel)