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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Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.
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Baltimore is a beautiful city. I started doing a lot of community organizing back in 1999 and met so many great people in neighborhoods all across the city. And that was an invaluable experience.
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State and local regulators are the officials with the closest contact with the regulated community, ... Given their close intimate knowledge of the business they regulate, they are in a much better position than Congress to judge whether a particular small business is deserving of leniency for a first-time violation.
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The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.
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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.
