"In building up a democratic model I think that Cuba's contribution, little by little, has contributed to getting closer to the ideals of those philosophers, of those Greeks who thought about how a society could be fairer, how a society could really represent the interests of the people. We have tried to get closer to that from a Latin-American perspective and from the Cuban perspective."

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

Alejandro Castro Espin

#Latin Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Building Up Quotes

“God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.”

Source : Heywood Broun (1921). “Seeing things at night”
“Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man...”
“All our media are given over to things that are better left unsaid.”
“The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.”
“There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass”
“One of the best feelings I had growing up was being completely exhausted at the end of the day after playing outside all day.”

Source : "Pharr Davis thrives on trail". Interview with Anna Katherine Clemmons, www.espn.com. July 2, 2013.
“I think I still keep my sense of wonder, which I call childlike, not childish, childlike. I still have a vivid imagination, and I like to try a lot of new things.”
“Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.”

Source : Oceana ch. 5 (1886)

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