Bartolomé de las Casas Quotes
Later, a large band of Christians mounted an attack on this native lord, butchering him along with vast numbers of his people and taking all the survivors into slavery, where they duly perished, so that today not a trace remains of what was previously a community with dominion over an area of some thirty leagues.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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My goal in politics from the very beginning has been, and will be, the goal of giving Ukraine a chance to finally secure a firm footing in the world as a competitive, independent and real European state.
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Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
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I want Prince to see something I do and call me and ask me to be on an album or if I want to dance!
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Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.
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It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.
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I don't know any Londoners 'cos I'm from Manchester.
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Agreeing to share prosperity, rather than let it divide us, is infinitely preferable to the alternative.
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I roll from my bedroom into my workroom in the morning and craft-craft-craft.
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Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
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Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
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I think a few pictures at a time.
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When you get to play pretend for a living and do it with really talented people, it's really fun to go to the office!
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I don't need to speak about N'Golo; everyone knows about him. He's everywhere. I think, sometimes when I'm on the pitch, I see him twice. One on the left, one on the right. I think I'm playing with twins!
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We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.
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If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.
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As an independent skeptical of all news stations and wanting to understand diverse perspectives, I tend to navigate between CNN, ABC, PBS, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, CNBC, and yes, FOX.
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I just have a different impression of the human race. I think we're really resilient. I think there are a lot of cynical people out there right now, and probably for good reason. But I think that ever cynic is really a damaged romantic, and they really, really, really want things to be good. And if that's the case, I don't need to tell a story that says, "Humanity, look what you've done. Now you can't go out. There's no sun. Look how you've wrecked the world." That's not me. That's not my job.
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The position of the Muslim community in the face of all provocations seems to be: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn't, we will kill you.
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I'm all for putting money back into the black community, who white people have been stealing from for years.
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The thing is, my education was music. I knew I'd be playing music no matter what. That's all I thought about, I was obsessed with it. I'm still obsessed with it. It gets the best of me sometimes.
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Later, a large band of Christians mounted an attack on this native lord, butchering him along with vast numbers of his people and taking all the survivors into slavery, where they duly perished, so that today not a trace remains of what was previously a community with dominion over an area of some thirty leagues.
