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"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."
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"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."
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"Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive."
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"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."
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"If we live in the moment every misery shall fade."
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"If we do right, we shall rejoice."
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"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."
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"Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth."
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"I can live for two months on a good compliment."
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"Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families."
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"The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers!"
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"It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power."
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"There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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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"Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are."
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"As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things."
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"In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays."
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"Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974."
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"I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined."
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