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• I wanted to take part in the liberation of even a small piece of enslaved Latin America.

  Che Guevara

  America, Pieces, Liberation

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• En los doce años que estuve en la escuela, nadie consiguió jamás hacerme escribir un verso en latín ni aprender nada de griego, excepto el alfabeto.

  Winston Churchill

  Educación, Escritura, Escuela

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Every passing year brings us more past futures. Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin. It's counterproductive to blither on about "the" future. It's always somebody's future, and we're not who we used to be.

  Bruce Sterling

  Dark, Past, Years

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• We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not lie and do not be idle.

  Evo Morales

  Lying, Law, America

  "'Capitalism Has Only Hurt Latin America'". Interview with Jens Glüsing, Hans Hoyng, www.spiegel.de. August 28, 2006.

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• Los hombres latinos aman a las mujeres latinas, es parte de la cultura, celebramos a las mujeres de una manera muy especial y creo que eso está presente en mi trabajo. Lo hago haciéndolas bellas, sensuales.

  Narciso Rodríguez

  Hermoso, Hombres, Pensamiento

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• Es maravilloso lo pronto que un piano entra en una cabaña de madera en la frontera. Cualquiera diría que lo encontraron debajo de un tronco de pino. Con él viene una gramática latina, y uno de esos chicos cabeza de remolque ha escrito un himno dominical. Que las universidades y los senados presten atención, porque aquí hay alguien que, abriendo estos finos gustos sobre la base de la constitución de hierro del pionero, recogerá todos sus laureles en sus fuertes manos.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Sunday, Boys

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.21, Рипол Классик

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• Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?

  Larry Wall

  Greek, Intuition, Three

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• Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.

  J. L. Austin

  Austin, Done, Models

  "A Plea for Excuses". Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 1956.

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• Latin Americans have gotten tired of the Washington consensus - a neoliberalism that has aggravated misery and poverty.

  Hugo Chávez

  Tired, Neoliberalism, Poverty

  Fuente: www.progressive.org

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• When you arrive really inside the discussion of race, practically they institute a Mexican-ness, a Latin-ness, a racial community that just isn't true. So, we know who are the people that have the majority of power, access and privileges in Mexico, and they are white Mexicans.

  Bocafloja

  Race, White, People

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.

  Álvaro Uribe

  War, Dictator, Reviews

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• Creo que en términos del trabajo que realizo, al establecer un diálogo sobre las relaciones raciales en América Latina, piso uno de los temas más relevantes hoy en día.

  Bocafloja

  Believe, Race, America

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• La causa latinoamericana es sobre todo una causa social: el renacimiento de América Latina debe empezar por el derrocamiento de sus amos, país por país. Estamos entrando en tiempos de rebelión y cambio. Hay quienes creen que el destino descansa sobre las rodillas de los dioses; pero la verdad es que enfrenta a la conciencia del hombre con un desafío candente.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Country, Believe, Destiny

  Eduardo Galeano (1997). "Las venas abiertas de América Latina: Cinco siglos de saqueo de un continente", p.261, NYU Press

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• ¿CUI BONO? [¿De qué me serviría eso?

  Ambrose Bierce

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.46, University of Georgia Press

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• By the year 2000, I want to be the first Latin musician to play on the moon.

  Tito Puente

  Moon, Years, Play

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Paris, hours in the café, a certain spirit of rebellion, one side a bit too stubborn, the sea, the true, in Bretagne, the walking in Provence, the taste, the passion for literature, the libraries, the beautiful editions, remaking the world in a set of hours around a table and a bottle of wine. Talking without really saying nothing, just for the pleasure of talking. The museums, the theatres, the elegance, the delicacy, the heritage of the Illustration, a humanistic philosophy. The balance we got between a nordic rigor and a latin savoir-vivre, the insolence and the freedom.

  Clemencia Poesía

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Wine

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• But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time.

  George Saintsbury

  Escritura, Hombres, Largo

  George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.27, tredition

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• FORMA PAUPERIS. [En el carácter de una persona pobre - un método por el cual a un litigante sin dinero para abogados se le permite perder su caso.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Money, Character, Lawyer

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.86, University of Georgia Press

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• I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America.

  Rubén Blades

  New York, Views, America

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• Me gustaba el latín, me gustaban las lenguas, me gustaban todos los mitos y los cuentos romanos que teníamos que traducir al latín, y todas esas personas interesantes que nunca eran exactamente lo que pensaban o parecían ser.

  Suzanne Farrell

  People, Interesting, Would Be

  "Suzanne Farrell: bailarina extraordinaria". Entrevista, www.achievement.org.

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• I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went, but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds.

  Rubén Blades

  New York, Thinking, Numbers

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• I have been a victim of stereotypes. I come from Latin America and to some countries, we are considered 'losers,' drug traffickers, and that is not fair because that is generalizing.

  Ricky Martin

  Country, America, Drug

  "Ricky Martin Embraces Arab Youth". Ricky Martin's address to the youngsters from 16 mainly Arab countries at a youth conference in the Middle East, www.cbsnews.com. July 25, 2005.

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• The word 'comfort' comes from the Latin words for 'with' and 'strength' and originally meant operating from a position of power.

  Joseph Chilton Pearce

  Position Of Power, Comfort, Position

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• The Latin proverb, homo homini lupus — man is a wolf to man—... is a libel on the wolf, which is a gentle animal with other wolves.

  Geoffrey Gorer

  Animal, Men, Libel

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• Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much sense as forcing modern residents of England to wear laurels and togas.

  Steven Pinker

  Writing, Editing, Togas

  Steven Pinker (1994). “The Language Instinct”, William Morrow & Company

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