"Not only does the world scarcely know who the Latin American man is, the world has barely cared."

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Source : Georgie Anne Geyer (1970). “The New Latins: Fateful Change in South and Central America”

Georgie Anne Geyer

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“Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of your food, your closet full of your clothes -- with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That's not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating.”
“Obstacles are an opportunity to create something new”
“Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.”
“When I was a graduate student, estimating and interpreting distributed lags topped the agenda of macroeconomists and other applied economists.”
“Methodology is intuition reconstructed in tranquility”

Source : "The Mind Traveller: A Guide to Paul F. Lazarsfeld's Communicating Research Papers". Book by Ann K. Pasanella, p. 22, 1994.
“If one is looking for cultural testosterone and raging off-the-wall competition in the world of communications, Manhattan was - and is - home plate.”
“The menu of this kitchen will have more than soup; it will serve as an opportunity to explore the vast untapped power of food as a force for participatory democracy, as a means of empowerment for those who have little and as a lens through which we embrace, and in fact relish, our differences but see and live through our commonalities. If you eat, then you are a part of this.”
“When our cup runs over, we let others drink the drops that fall, but not a drop from within the rim, and call it charity; when the crumbs are swept from our table, we think it generous to let the dogs eat them; as if that were charity which permits others to have what we cannot keep.”

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