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“Our country has caused tremendous damage and pain to the peoples of many countries, especially Asian countries, through colonial rule and invasion. Humbly acknowledging such facts of history, I once again reflect most deeply and offer apologies from my heart as well as express my condolences to all the victims of the last major war both in and out of the country,.”

Wells Heart War Country Facts Pain Lasts My Heart Offers Majors Victim Our Country Damage Apology Asian Invasion Condolences My Condolences Asian Countries

Author:Junichiro Koizumi

“A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth. Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.”

“In Anglo-Saxon countries the prostitutes look as if they purveyed, along with sin, the attendant pains of hell.”

Ifs Looks Country Pain Sin Hell Prostitution Anglo Saxon

Book:Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

“I often wonder how we can make the more fortunate in this country fully aware of the fact that the problem of the unemployed is not a mechanical one. It is a problem alive and throbbing with human pain.”

Humans Country Facts Problem Pain Wonder Alive Fortunate Unemployment Unemployed

Book:My Days

Source: My Days

“America must deal once and for all with an utterly irrational health care financing system that allows private interests to make billions in profits from the pain and suffering of their fellow citizens. America is the only country in the industrialized world that does not provide tax-supported universal health care coverage in some form.”

Source: Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines

“The solid truth of the matter is, when you find - if you want to help heal the hurt, if you want to hurt people and - help people in pain, the best way to do so is to call upon the great strength of the country, which is the compassion of our fellow Americans.”

People Ifs Way Want Country Matter Helping Pain Hurt Compassion Fellows Heal Best Way

Author:George W. Bush

“In a virtuous and free state, no rewards can be so pleasing to sensible minds, as those which include the approbation of our fellow citizens. My great pain is, lest my poor endeavours should fall short of the kind expectations of my country.”

Should Mind Kind Country States Pain Fall Poor Citizens Expectations Fellows Rewards Sensible Virtuous Public Service Endeavour Free State

Book:Thomas Jefferson: a biography in his own words

Source: Thomas Jefferson: a biography in his own words

“But the question is, do we care enough? Do we care enough to keep standing up for the country that we know is possible, even if it's hard, and even if it's politically uncomfortable? Do we care enough to sustain the passion and the pressure to make our communities safer and our country safer? Do we care enough to do everything we can to spare other families the pain that is felt here today?”

“Daily there have to be many troubles and trials in every house, city, and country. No station in life is free of suffering and pain, both from your own, like your wife or children or household help or subjects, and from the outside, from your neighbors and all sorts of accidental trouble.”

Children Country Helping Pain Life Is Suffering House Cities Wife Trouble Subjects Like You Neighbor Trials Stations Household Suffering And Pain City And Country

Book:The sermon on the mount and the magnificat

Source: The sermon on the mount and the magnificat

“City and country -- each has its own beauty and its own pain. Some of the smallness of small towns -- cattiness, everybody knowing everybody's business -- that can be challenging. And cities can be challenging, because no one can connect except electronically.”

Country Pain Challenges Cities Knowing Towns Small Town Smallness City And Country

Author:William P. Young

“The psychological pain--and the ethical shame--of American poverty are made greater by the fact that this country possesses the wealth and the energy to raise all children to a minimally decent standard of living.”

Children Made Country Facts Pain Energy Wealth Poverty Greater Standards Shame Raises Psychological Decent Ethical Standards Of Living Psychological Pain American Poverty

Book:All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure