"Socialism is overcoming certain difficulties, it is working in order to try to achieve social advances, to really achieve a society where everybody improves, not where just the elite improve and the others get worse."

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Source : "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

Alejandro Castro Espin

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“Pray for the love which allows you to see the good in your companion. Pray for the love that makes weaknesses and mistakes seem small. Pray for the love to make your companion's joy your own. Pray for the love to want to lessen the load and soften the sorrows of your companion”

Source : FaceBook post by Henry B Eyring from Sep 16, 2015
“It can be fairly argued that the highest priority for mankind is to save itself from extinction. However, it can also be argued th at a society that neglects its children and robs them of their human potential can extinguish itself without an external enemy.”
“girls forbidden to dance would only attract husbands with bad complexions and sunken chests.”
“I think the most attractive thing for me when I meet a guy is confidence and him being comfortable in his own skin. I like someone who doesn't need approval or validation.”
“This is Buffalo, New York. It's like. Scranton without the charm.”
“Longing is the fullest sense of desire; it's the most deeply felt kind of desire. I think the most interesting artwork comes out of some sense of longing. It could be called dissatisfaction; it could be called distance. There are many kinds of wanting to get closer to something else, whether that is an idea, a body, a place. Longing is also one of the conditions people approach reading, visual art, or music with - it's to satisfy that sense of longing. It's part of my job, on some level, to grapple with that notion.”
“Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.”

Source : Ernest Dimnet (1954). “The Art of Thinking”, p.113, Prabhat Prakashan
“The Miami Dolphins have to be taken seriously. Here's a team that seems to be jelling.”

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