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Charles Bowden

"If drugs were legalized in the US, the Mexican economy would collapse since the earnings from drugs bring in more hard currency than its largest licit source, oil sales. Mexico is a corrupt state that has now become dependent on the earnings on an illegal product. But inevitably, the product will become legal and then Mexico will retain its corruption but must face the needs of its citizens now employed by the drug industry who have become steeped in violence and conditioned to higher incomes."

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Charles Bowden

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“I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.”
“The digital sunset always looks better than the real thing, always. Because a sunset generated by the basic package of yellow sun and blue sky is unreliable. Today it may be stunning, hypnotic. Tomorrow it may be lifeless and dull, a white sky scorched with yellow. Tomorrow the sky will be velvet.”
“A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need.”
“I think you have to embrace being a role model because you are in the public eye, and whether you like it or not, people are going to be affected by you positively or negatively, ... Public-wise, I really wouldnt do anything that would be detrimental to anybody else or to myself. And to a certain extent, I try to watch out and try not to do anything that would be bad for kids to see.”
“The world is a mirror for us â€“ whatever you say about others is really how you feel about yourself.”
“If you have a smash hit record or something that's quirky or funny or cool, people are going to go after it.”

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“If you find that you're spending almost all your time on theory, start turning some attention to practical things; it will improve your theories. If you find that you're spending almost all your time on practice, start turning some attention to theoretical things; it will improve your practice.”

Source : "Theory and Practice". Theoretical Computer Science, 1991.
“Who said that clothes make a statement? What an understatement that was. Clothes never shut up.”

Source : Susan Brownmiller (2013). “Femininity”, p.86, Open Road Media

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