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"The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day."
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"We must stop expecting the government to play the role of national transformation why we sit down and watch."
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"The public thinks big, sensible, measured thoughts while people run around doing silly things."
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"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly, the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
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"Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences."
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"It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night."
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"In too many instances we have settled for a world of our own shaping that is shaping up to be in terrible shape."
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"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."
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"Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home."
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"Your water is in the bottles, and my water is in the bucket, but we are brothers? I am collecting garbage, and you are in the bed, but we are sisters? My fingers are broken, and your hands are so soft, but we are family? Your God is like an angel, and my God is like an evil, but we are equal? My stomach is empty, and your stomach is so big, but we are humans?"
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"PLEASE and THANK YOU...two polite phrases which are slowly disappearing from our vocabulary."
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"The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day."
Society
"I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens."
Food
"What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?"
Society
"Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me."
People
"One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language."
Society
"Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter."
Memory
"You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring."
Society
"There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile."
Dance
"If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young."
Youth
"I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news."
Power
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