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latin able use
Learn to say no; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin. Charles Spurgeon
latin years america
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become accustomed to suffering with clenched teeth. Eduardo Galeano
latin known
We Latins are known for jabbering on.
latin ignorance america
I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.
latin years america
Latin America is part of the world which was for many years condemned to the system of power where intimidation had more strength than the vote.
latin past land
I'm a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia.
latin heart records
Recordar: To remember; from the Latin records, to pass back through the heart
latin hate rhythm
If there's anything I hate, it's the vibraphone. And the cha-cha-cha. And Latin rhythms generally. Edward Abbey
latin men america
Rural communities in Africa, South Asia and Latin America are where the majority of hungry people are and the inequality that exists between women and men in these communities is holding back progress. These women have a very tough time, so much is expected of them. Dionne Warwick
greek-poet love
Friends show their love in times of trouble. Euripides
greek hillbilly orthodox tenor
You know what I do on Sundays? I sing in a choir. I sing in a Greek Orthodox choir, and I'm the only hillbilly tenor in the Orthodox Church. Chris Hillman
greek-poet men nor prophet waits
Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him. Sophocles
greek-poet
It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.
greek-poet
A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.
greek-poet
Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.
greek-poet whoever
Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.
greek-poet man nature
All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
greek-poet
I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.
vacuums sometimes stills
Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks. Dennis Ritchie
vacuums loud cleaners
It sounded like a very loud vacuum cleaner behind us. David J. C. MacKay
vacuums done bathroom
If I'm stuck, I get up from my chair and I wash windows. Or... clean the bathroom. Or vacuum the attic. There's always something to be done. David Sedaris
vacuums speculation
Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Baruch Spinoza
vacuums head-of-state statesmen
Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen. Clare Boothe Luce
vacuums matter consciousness
Deep down the consciousness of mankind is one. This is a virtual certainty because even in the vacuum matter is one; and if we don't see this, it's because we are blinding ourselves to it. David Bohm
vacuums cracks behavior
I had a terrible temper, after all, and though it rarely erupted, when it did it frightened me and anyone near its epicenter. It was the only crack, but a disturbing one, in the otherwise vacuum-sealed casing of my behavior. Kay Redfield Jamison
vacuums
No one acts or experiences in a vacuum... R. D. Laing
vacuums doe use
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use. Ezra Pound