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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

* Frederick Douglass Speech on the twenty-fourth anniversary of Emancipation in the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C. (April 1886)


Why do you not judge for yourselves what is right?

Jesus in Luke 12:57


Only after a big disaster, you fix the problem.

빈 수레가 요란하다.


When one has little substance, he/she tends to boast more.

티끌모아 태산.


Ge cruaidh sgarachdainn, cha robh dithis gun dealachadh.
Though separation be hard, two never met but had to part.
Gaelic-Scottish Proverb



出る杭は打たれる。

* Deru kui wa utareru.
* Literally: The stake that sticks out gets hammered down.
Japanese proverb


A good friend is someone who will bail you out of jail, but your best friend is the one sitting next to you saying "Man, we screwed up."
American Proverb

I'd be a failure if it weren't for all the mistakes I've made
American Proverb