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"In fact that is the struggle that most Americans - As rich as this country is, most Americans are very limited in their interaction with the world, unless the world comes to us in a very shocking way."
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"To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence."
History
"And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934."
Fact
"Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy."
Friendship
"There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness."
People
"I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles."
Dream
"On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions up. It is too bad that people have to be shaken up in that way."
People
"Also, people are not often aware of the way the United States' policies influence what happens in places like Haiti or El Salvador or Nicaragua. Or in Columbia right now."
People
"Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money."
Money
"On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away."
Time
"People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think that's limited to Haiti."
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"People with victim mentality attracts people in their lives that tease them, abuse them and even bully them instead of building mutually benefitting relationships."
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"Be ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life."
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"God is not coming to fix any nation. The most he could do is to raise up a man or a woman who would take responsibility to fix the nation."
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"Everyone is asleep. They've all been asleep for years. You seemed ... awake.' Alex is whispering now. He closes his eyes, opens them again.'I'm tired of sleeping."
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"There are few things more destructive than thoughts believed without question."
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"The tragedy of our age is that a greater percentage of people living today are only living in the dream world."
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"If you think everybody hates you, then your ignorance is beyond the limit, because there's a loving heart somewhere longing to see your face."
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"Intuition is beyond the scope of our mind, it is surprising, but it is the fact of life."
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"Like many people who became sick, I found that researching man-made radiation immersed me into a corporate world of lie, confuse and deny."
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"You hear with your ears, but you listen with an open mind."
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