Jose Mujica Quotes
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If the inmates of Guantanamo want to make their nests in Uruguay, they can do it.
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We can't avoid that our daily and intimate manner of speaking is sometimes rough.
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I don't want to be an apologist for poverty, but I can't stand waste, useless spending, wasted energy and having to live squandering stuff.
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I don't know whether I like this planet or not. But I have to accept it.
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A lot of people like a lot of money. They shouldn't go into politics.
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There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.
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The fight against the drug smuggling is lost worldwide.
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I'll shout it if they want: Down with isms! Up with a Left that is capable of thinking outside the box! In other words, I am more than completely cured of simplifications, of dividing the world into good and evil, of thinking in black and white. I have repented!
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The kids of today have to be better than us. We must strive to create tools adequate for human beings that come with other things that are, at least, different from those we used to have.
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No addiction is good.
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All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way.
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Any North American state is more important than Uruguay, in dimensions, in its economic force.
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I am an austere president.
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If you don't have many possessions, then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself.
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The world will always need revolution. That doesn't mean shooting and violence. A revolution is when you change your thinking. Confucianism and Christianity were both revolutionary.
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If we lived within our means - by being prudent - the 7 billion people in the world could have everything they needed. Global politics should be moving in that direction. But we think as people and countries, not as a species.
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Fascism in Uruguay did not begin just with the military coup of 1973, but years before, even when there was still a government with a constitution and parliament.
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If I worried about pollsters, I wouldn't be president.
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The political climate during a campaign is not the best climate for reasonable debate.
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I give myself the luxury of saying what I want.
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There are those who believe that power is up above, and they don't notice that it's actually in the hearts of the great masses.
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The world cries out for global rules that respect the achievements of science.
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I learned that one can always start again.
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The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.