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For me, I'm just trying to be the best at what I do. I'll wave an Asian American flag if I get that opportunity. I'm not hiding or trying to discredit my background or anything, I just haven't had the opportunity. ↗

— Chad Hugo

#american flag #anything #asian #asian american #background

History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#anticipated #been #changes #come #except

I played saxophone, so I was into jazz. I learned from each audience and each teacher that I had. I can't really tell you any rules or anything, but the way I develop my beliefs is really just by personally learning from different situations. ↗

— Chad Hugo

#anything #audience #beliefs #develop #different

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#bending #beneath #bird #branch #feels

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#down #dragged #either #individual #lift

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#continually #extract #hardest #ill #inexhaustible

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#age #beautiful #confusing #deeper #depression

Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#giving #influence #life #luxury #made

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#betterment #concept #content #essential #ideal