Bartolomé de las Casas Quotes
Island of Hispaniola once so populous having a population that I estimated to be more than three million, has now a population of barely two hundred persons.
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If I have anything, it's tenacity.
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I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.
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Each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling.
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Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.
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What you care about [movie] is whether it's moving you, or whether you're caught up in it.
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There are aspects of '24' where I love its politics and aspects where I hate them.
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Do not be afraid of your difficulties.Do not wish you could be in other circumstances than you are. For when you have made the best of an adversity, it becomes the stepping stone to a splendid opportunity.
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This is not the case of a pampered athlete. This is not a case or a situation where someone said, 'Hey, I played ball. You need to treat me differently.' He took it like a man.
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Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy.
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Even a superficial glance is sufficient to show that all the innumerable forms in which the life-urge of Nature manifests itself are subject to a fundamental law - one may call it an iron law of Nature - which compels the various species to keep within the definite limits of their own life-forms when propagating and multiplying their kind.
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When you take technology and mix it with art, you always come up with something innovative.
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I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.
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Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act... a "doing" rather than a "being". There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the very "expressions" that are said to be its results. If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called 'sex' is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.
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Oliver liked to play the part of disaffected youth, but he liked shopping in SoHo even more.
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The church grew, and I gained a reputation for preaching, and people came, and it was a wonderful community. But we had a building that seated 82 people, and with a congregation then approaching 400 we were up to four services on Sunday, and everyone was tired.
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Mutual commitment to ideals - yes; the stifling of all dissenting notions - no.
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When I was in The Scream, I thought I'd be around for 30 years playing with The Scream guys. Who knew I was gonna get a call from Motley?
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Where is democratic process or popular sovereignty for the endangered population? It cannot be "given" or "allocated" by some other power without that same power claiming the right to withdraw what it gives.
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If the question were, "What ought to be the next objective in science?" my answer would be the teaching of science to the young, so that when the whole population grew up there would be a far more general background of common sense, based on a knowledge of the real meaning of the scientific method of discovering truth.
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Deng Xiaoping made a calculation. He bet on demographics. What he knew was that China had this enormous population of young, underemployed people, people who he could move from the farms to the coast and put them to work in factories, and that would be the lifeblood of China's economy.
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Island of Hispaniola once so populous having a population that I estimated to be more than three million, has now a population of barely two hundred persons.
