Virginia Vallejo Quotes
Pablo really felt the suffering of people and so became a political animal. But he wanted to bring down extradition because this was the only thing he feared, and it became his obsession, his crusade, his cross.
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If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.
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Man designs for himself a garden with a hundred kinds of trees, a thousand kinds of flowers, a hundred kinds of fruit and vegetables. Suppose, then, that the gardener of this garden knew no other distinction between edible and inedible, nine-tenths of this garden would be useless to him. He would pull up the most enchanting flowers and hew down the noblest trees and even regard them with a loathing and envious eye. This is what the Steppenwolf does with the thousand flowers of his soul. What does not stand classified as either man or wolf he does not see at all.
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A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war.
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One of my assistants was on Instagram and showed me how it was working. I thought it was playful, the way you go through images, a little like cinema. It's a bit like a filmstrip that's animated by your finger.
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It is harder, usually, to find a person who wants to walk the streets of me, to taste the teas of my country, to... immigrate, you could say.
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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Words felt so clumsy when she was talking about feelings and not facts.
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self-sovereignty; the right to an equal place, everywhere conceded--a place earned by personal merit, not an artificial attainment by inheritance, wealth, family and position.
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'Concentrate on measuring performance and winning will take care of itself'. That is a brilliant excuse for coming second.
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When a young person loses faith in his religion because he begins to study science and its methodology it isn't that through the obtaining of real knowledge that he knows it all, but he suddenly realizes that he doesn't know it all.
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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I have today decided that I will not order the extradition of Senator Pinochet to Spain. I have also decided not to ... proceed in respect of the extradition requests from Switzerland, Belgium and France.
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Again, my heart raced. I feared the worst.
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An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
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Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do.
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We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.
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Pablo really felt the suffering of people and so became a political animal. But he wanted to bring down extradition because this was the only thing he feared, and it became his obsession, his crusade, his cross.
