"In Colombia today we have 16% of the population, which is a very small amount of the population owning 90% of the land and 20 years ago it wasn't like that."

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Source : Source: bigthink.com

Ingrid Betancourt

#Years Quotes #Land Quotes #Population Quotes

“From a young age, [James Baldwin] was watching all those different films. He's watching John Wayne killing off the Indians. He came to the point that the Indians were him. You had to educate yourself because the movies were not educating you. The movies were giving you a reflection of you that was not the truth. That's the trick. The movie was also giving a reflection of what the country is. Basically, a country that wanted itself to be innocent. That's the ambivalence of Hollywood.”
“Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.”
“I have only one prejudice in horseflesh - I do not like a white one.”

Source : Ernest Thompson Seton (2010). “The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe Journey”, p.48, BoD – Books on Demand
“I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.”
“Many people think I'm a television personality. I never have been! Just someone who acts it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Rules of property ought to be generally known, and not to be left upon loose notes, which rather serve to confound principles, than to confirm them.”

Source : "Goodtitle v. Duke of Chandos" (1760), 2 Burr. Part IV., p. 1076 in "The Dictionary of Legal Quotations" by James William Norton-Kyshe, (pp. 210-212), 1904.
“The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There must be one â€“ everything depends on the circumstances, a rule applicable as much to literary style as to life. Each word tugs another one along, one idea another, and that is how books, governments and revolutions are made â€“ some even say that is how Nature created her species.”

Source : Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (2010). “The Devil's Church and Other Stories”, p.11, University of Texas Press
“To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.”

Source : "Gerry Adams: Queen's Ireland regret not enough", www.cnn.com. May 19, 2011.

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