"I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad."

-- Ella Maillart

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“Life is a race. If you delay starting, how can you have any hope of winning?”
“The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.”

Source : Ralph Chaplin, Ben Hur Lampman, Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Dept. of Research and Education (1971). “The Centralia case: three views of the Armistice Day tragedy at Centralia, Washington, Novemeber 11, 1919: The Centralia conspiracy”, Da Capo Pr
“A world filled with temptations needs priests who are totally dedicated to their mission. Accordingly, they are asked in a very special way to open themselves fully to serving others as Christ did by embracing the gift of celibacy.”
“The Gospel must be repeatedly forwarded to a new address because the recipient is repeatedly changing places of residence.”
“The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.”
“I'm dying to get back in front of the cameras. I miss it like crazy.”
“People need to understand. If they go to a show on Broadway and find seventy people working but only fifty spectators, how much would the ticket cost? That's what El Bulli's about. There are seventy actors who are playing for just fifty spectators. Is the price expensive? It's relative. How much does a normal dinner at a five-star hotel restaurant cost? Four hundred dollars. It's the same as El Bulli. But you can also think of it this way: How much would it cost to eat something that nobody else is eating?”
“I envy stupidity, stupidity is eternal.”

Source : "Flor de Obsessão: as 1000 melhores frases de Nelson Rodrigues". Book by Nelson Rodrigues, 1992.

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