"[The Mexican revolution] was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mexican Revolution accepted all heritages. It allowed Mexico to be mestizo."

-- Carlos Fuentes

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“We can feel sorry for ourselves or we can put the work boots on and understand the situation and the reality of it all.”
“I am and will always be just simply a basball [sic] player, my tomb stone will just say. Baseball.”

Source : Jose Canseco @JoseCanseco, twitter.com. December 12, 2010.
“I believe we are going to move into a situation where the more effective conferences will be smaller, more specialized, more focused, with occasional large gatherings to get the attention of the larger world.”
“The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of the human currents of his time, so that there results an accurate permanent record of a phase of history.”
“We must also recognize the new realities of modern warfare and the modern landscape of a battlefield.”
“Every man has a weakness," he patiently explained. "I'll find theirs, I promise you." "Every man?" "Yes," he answered emphatically. His hand moved to the back of her neck. Twisting her curls around his fist, he jerked her head back. His face loomed over hers, his breath warm and sweet as he stared down into her eyes. "What is your weakness, Brodick?" she asked. "You.”
“The fact of the matter is that I've enjoyed the competition in life and the business of life; I've enjoyed all that goes with it.”
“You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?”

Source : FaceBook post by Fran Tarkenton from Jun 03, 2013

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