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"Americans have discovered fear."
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"Until you break through the walls of fear, you will not be able to reach the door of opportunity."

"There are things so horrible that even the dark is afraid of them. Most people don't know this and this is just as well because the world could not really operate if everyone stayed in bed with the blankets over their head, which is what would happen if people knew what horrors lay a shadow's width away."

"It's not the circumstances that we should feel threatened by, it's the fear of the circumstances that poses the real threat."
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"The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan."

"Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt."

"It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power."

"There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything."

"A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction."

"I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet."

"People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich."

"The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975."

"What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?"
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