Gioconda Belli famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Peace is the respect for the rights of the other person.
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The world has always gone forward when people have dared to have crazy ideas.
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Dare to change the world. There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity. I can't think of a better life than one dedicated to passion, to dreams, to the stubbornness that defies chaos and disillusionment.
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About 2500 years ago Aeschylus, the Greek playwright, wrote, He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. These remarkable photos and the stories that accompany them should be on billboards from sea to shining sea, so the pain and suffering they represent might fall drop by drop upon the American psyche and against our will, by the awful grace of God, wisdom might come to these United States and her foreign policy.
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I am convinced that the reason why my kids have become very fulfilled and achieving human beings is because I wasn't raising them alone.
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My son lives in Nicaragua. My daughters live in the United States.
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I don't know whether you have any rights before you're born. All I know is that being born again doesn't entitle you to twice as many.
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I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most sweeping civil rights legislation of its day, and included women's rights as part of its reforms. Ironically, the section on women's rights was added by a senator from Virginia who opposed the whole thing and was said to be sure that if he stuck something about womens' rights into it, it would never pass. The bill passed anyway, though, much to the chagrin of a certain wiener from Virginia.
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Everybody's always looking for the person they're better than
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You will not be the same person coming out of a relationship as you were going into it.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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Anybody who has interacted with me will definitely find me to be a chirpy person.
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Every person is, in part, 'his own project' and makes himself.
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I'd never hurt another person.
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Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.
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