Adolfo Perez Esquivel Quotes
The best power of all is to be free, but Obama is not a free person. He is a prisoner of a military system. He talked about closing Guantanamo and ending the war in Iraq. Now he's taken on another war. What's happening?
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I always remember that I am a representative of my country, and I always think about the culture I'm bringing to people.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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I try to do my best.
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There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.
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I've fondly dreamed of becoming the face of an important brand since I was a child, in the same way that others dream of becoming an astronaut. I dreamed of this as I first and foremost dreamed of becoming an actor and would look up at these huge posters of celebrities while driving along motorways or crossing under bridges.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.
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I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all middle children out there.
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Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
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Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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I like the language in Proust but not the context.
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I talk to myself out loud at times, and feel embarrassed when people overhear me.
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Public employee unions are hardly the only group involved in bare-knuckles politics. Businesses lobby fiercely, and executives make hefty campaign donations.
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You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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The 'Iliad' covered only two months of the great ten-year war with Troy. At least six other epic poems preceded or continued the events in the 'Iliad', but they survive only as fragments.
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The best power of all is to be free, but Obama is not a free person. He is a prisoner of a military system. He talked about closing Guantanamo and ending the war in Iraq. Now he's taken on another war. What's happening?
