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“America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul.”
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“The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.”
Source : "Dulce et Decorum Est" l. 21 (written 1918) See Horace 20
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“The world is a puzzling place today. All these banks sending us credit cards, with our names on them. Well, we didn't order any credit cards! We don't spend what we don't have. So we just cut them in half and throw them out, just as soon as we open them in the mail. Imagine a bank sending credit cards to two ladies over a hundred years old! What are those folks thinking?”
Source : Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth (1993). “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years”, p.13, Kodansha America
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“WTO is not the forum for labour standards. Next, the U.S. will argue the time zone difference is an unfair competitive advantage enjoyed by India that enables our software engineers to work while the Americans sleep.”
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“I have two grandchildren.”
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“Celebrity is very weird.”
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“If there is no friendship with them [the poor] and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation, because love exists only among equals.”
Source : Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “A theology of liberation: history, politics, and salvation”
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“Trevor was as menacing as he was gorgeous. If he were a vampire, he'd be the dark kind, the kind that sneaks up on innocent girls and bites without a thought.”