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 to be a soldier as my father was.
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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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I do think there is this danger that our society has made its peace with decline. I'd like to jolt them out of their complacency a little bit.
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You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.
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I just try to show up and be relaxed and present and honest. And that's my only trick. And sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. Honestly, sometimes it really doesn't work.
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So in one leap we had gone from being a friendly society to something almost professional.
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Even though many people prove to be ungrateful, do not let that stop you from benefiting others-for not only is beneficence in itself a noble and almost divine quality, it may also happen that while you practice it, you will encounter someone so grateful that he will make up for all the others' ingratitude.
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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.
