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To speak...means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.


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Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.



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Wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery.



Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect

Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect



Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.

Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.



A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.

A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.



What matters is not to know the world but to change it.

What matters is not to know the world but to change it.



To educate the masses politically is to make the totality of the nation a reality to each citizen. It is to make the history of the nation part of the personal experience of each of its citizens.

To educate the masses politically is to make the totality of the nation a reality to each citizen. It is to make the history of the nation part of the personal experience of each of its citizens.



He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.

He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.



The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves.

The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves.





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Of course I'm out of my mind. It's dark and scary in there.



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When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.

When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.



Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol.

Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol.



I would write light entertainment nonfiction pieces during the day, then come home and work on my fantasy fiction. It was very difficult to get out of the one mindset and into another one.

I would write light entertainment nonfiction pieces during the day, then come home and work on my fantasy fiction. It was very difficult to get out of the one mindset and into another one.



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I think you know, to not open your mind to television is silly because there's so much good work happening on television.



In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone.

In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone.



Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty.

Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty.



I'm Irish, so I'm messing all the time. Which means, I'm having a laugh. I'm always making jokes.

I'm Irish, so I'm messing all the time. Which means, I'm having a laugh. I'm always making jokes.




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