"Puerto Rican independence movement wasn't just rooted in some sort of personal intransigence or some passionate Latino temperament. It was rooted in economic and political reality at the time. It also made sense since the founding principles of the United States are supposedly based on government by the consent of the governed, and the sense that all men are created equal."

-- Nelson Antonio Denis

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“Timidity prompted by past failures causes investors to miss the most important bull markets.”
“I am pleased that in a match for the World Championship I was able to conduct a game in the style of Akiba Rubinstein, where the entire strategic course was maintained from the first to the last move.”
“There is already a generation of European graduates who feel they have been robbed of the better future they were led to expect. They are members of a new class: the precariat.”

Source : "Europe: the continent for every type of unhappy" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2014.
“I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“For example, in one of my last exhibitions I had a 50-foot massive painting with I think perhaps a hundred thousand hand-painted small flowers. This was the Christ painting [The Dead Christ in the Tomb, 2008] in my Down exhibition [2008]. Now, I simply can't spend eight hours a day painting small, identical flowers. And so I've got a team that allows me to have these grand, sweeping statements.”
“I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.”
“The first spoken word poem I ever wrote was when I was 14 and I wrote it because I was accidentally signed up for a teen poetry slam. Because I loved poetry I said that I'd try it out.”
“It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.”

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