Japan is a very important market for us and has grown remarkably as one of the most popular travel destinations in the world.
From John Kennedy to Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, presidents have rhetorically opened the door to the frontier for us, and each time, we have turned away to fight over destinations, technologies, and timing.
Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us.
Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
As demonstrated by the emergence of the Mexican swine flu in the U.S., infectious diseases have little respect for borders; helping developing countries detect and deal with their diseases is the surest way for us to protect ourselves from new and potentially devastating epidemics.
The technical challenges were technical challenges that were not unbeatable; it was just that we had to learn how to do things and how to build a sensitive enough device. That took us 20 years after we built the first version of the LIGO detector.
When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.
Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.
Too often we shape our public positions on the basis of our economic connections. That brings us dangerously close to economic determinism.
Obviously, the Philippines or any regional state can never match Chinese defense spending, but we will have to develop minimum deterrence capabilities that allow us to resist and inflict sufficient retaliation if China continues to undermine Philippine territorial integrity.
Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US.
Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
It becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored.
Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
With the '60s era and Motown, my grandparents actually introduced us to that when I was younger, so I grew up listening to the Jackson Five, Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, The Supremes and Diana Ross' solo stuff. I just loved it.
