"My whole life I saw how the violence my father created had come back to my family and I thought that I would only make things worse for my mother and my sister if I sought to avenge my father. I had to dare to take a path of peace."

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Source : Source: harvardpolitics.com

Juan Pablo Escobar

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“You don't look at it as the size of the role. Quantity is not the point. You can be as thorough in 30 seconds as you can in three hours.”
“It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.”
“The equipment and weaponry will continually change and improve, and the size of the military will expand as needed, decreasing during times of peace. But the unyielding will of the soldier and the dedication of professional military leaders will not change. Our soldiers can do a great deal more under pressure than people think. You'd have to see them perform in combat to believe it.”
“Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.”
“Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.”
“Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.”
“When I'm approached by brands I use the kind of philosophy - I don't really get into a project unless I feel I can make something that will be honest for me.”
“All men have parties and are pals who never let each other down. A pal can say terrible things which are forgotten the next day. A pal never forgives, he just forgets, and a woman forgives but never forgets. That's how it is. That's why women aren't allowed to have parties. Being forgiven is very unpleasant.”

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