Quotes
Authors
Alejandro Castro Espin

"How do we explain for example the Ebola epidemic in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea Conakry? Those very powers that swindled and occupied them, in the face of the serious situation of social emergency, have not even had the capacity to send doctors there. In some cases they have sent in militaries instead because that is what they are compelled to do. They have had to send military to do it because they do not even have any doctors with the willingness to risk their lives in order to help those people that are precisely paying for the consequences of years of colonization."

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org

Alejandro Castro Espin

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“The concept of congruence in Euclidean geometry is not exactly the same as that in non-Euclidean geometry. ..."Congruent" means in Euclidean geometry the same as "determining parallelism," a meaning which it does not have in non-Euclidean geometry.”

Source : "The Philosophy of Space and Time". Book by Hans Reichenbach, 1957.
“If we Christians would join the Wise Men, we must close our eyes to all that glitters before the world and look rather on the despised and foolish things, help the poor, comfort the despised, and aid the neighbor in his need.”
“Sports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They're designed to organize a community to be committed to their gladiators.”
“One of these days, you're going to fall in love with some guy, and you're not going to know what to do with yourself.”
“It wasn't until Kiffney-Brown, when I met Jason Talbot, that I really thought I might actually have one of those boyfriend kind of stories to tell the next time I got together with my old friends. Jason was smart, good-looking, and seriously on the rebound after his girlfriend at Jackson dumped him for, in his words, 'a juvenile delinquent welder with a tattoo'.”
“An unlimited amount of ability can develop when parent and child are having fun together.”

Source : Dr. Shinichi Suzuki, Mary Louise Nagata (2014). “Ability Development from Age Zero”, p.24, Alfred Music
“Pressure only makes you sick. You won't get anything positive out of it.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com
“[Photography was necessary to] make my place in the art-world: in order to do this, I had to make a picture, since a picture was what a gallery or museum was meant to hold (all the while, of course, I was claiming that I was denying the standard, rejecting it...)”

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