Amilcar Cabral Quotes
No matter how hot the water from your well, it will not cook your rice.
Amilcar Cabral
Quotes to Explore
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Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.
Samuel Butler
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Most of western culture is a distortion of reality. But reality should be distorted; that is, imaginatively amended. The Buddhist acquiescence to nature is neither accurate about nature nor just to human potential.
Camille Paglia
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In excluding me from the shadow cabinet, Margaret Thatcher has chosen what I believe to be the only wholly honest solution and one which I accept and welcome.
Edward Heath
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Veritatem Temporis filiam esse dixit.
Aulus Gellius
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People ask what I am really trying to do with humor. The answer is, 'I'm getting even.' … For me, being funny is the best revenge.
Art Buchwald
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Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.
Aristotle
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In Scotland, I was brought up to think of policemen as allies and to ask one for help when I needed it.
Angus Deaton
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You're always starting with a nugget of truth, whether it's a song or an improv scene.
Matt Besser
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The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
D. H. Lawrence
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After my first week of no wheat, my stomachaches were gone, my mucous cleared up, and I felt incredibly energetic. My headaches were also less frequent and less severe, and I had lost 3 pounds, most of it swelling and water weight my body had been holding onto as part of its response to the wheat products in my diet.
Daphne Oz
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No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not, the Supreme Court follows the election returns.
Finley Peter Dunne
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No matter how hot the water from your well, it will not cook your rice.
Amilcar Cabral
