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"We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world."
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"When people come together and discuss their differences based on life issues that are shared, it brings about successful changes."

"For future exploration, when we have the objective of going to the Moon, it is important to have several possibilities to go there, and within this framework of cooperation to have our own access to orbit around the Moon."

"Two heads are better than one, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go wrong in the same direction."

"With Animal Factory you'd think that because it's mostly interiors, you could shoot it anywhere. So we shot this in Philadelphia, and we had the cooperation of the prison system."

"Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish cooperation of many individuals."

"Alone we can do so little together we can do so much."

"Do not keep control over household affairs. The one who keeps control has to wander around. The unusable money [torn notes, ruined coins] are offered as homage in prayer rituals! 'Live' as a 'friend' with the 'wife'. You are her 'friend' and she is your 'friend'."

"No one can attain to truth by himself. Only by laying stone on stone with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our forefather Adam to our own times, is that temple reared which is to be a worthy dwelling place of the Great God."

"Life is a wall, you have to climb it by pushing others to climb over and you will be pushed as well. Give a helping hand today."

"Cooperation is a higher moral principle than competition."
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"I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity."


"I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity."


"I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context."


"An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused."


"My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible."
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