"The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day."

-- Alma Guillermoprieto

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“Very well, but remember this... I'll be looking at you when you're laid on the cross and the twelve blows are crashing down on your limbs. When the crowd is finally tired of your screams and wandered home, I will climb up through your blood and sit beside you. I will look deep into your eyes... and drop by drop I will trickle my disgust into them like burning acid until... finally... you perish.”

Source : Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, www.imdb.com. 2006.
“When I found out I had cancer, I just said one thing: 'I want to hold on to life' and that changed everything for me.”
“I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.”

Source : "Across the Busy Years: Recollections and Reflections". Book by Nicholas Murray Butler, Volume 1, 1939.
“Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.”

Source : "Ride the Waves: How to Take Control of Your Life One Emotion at a Time". Book by Tracy Friesen, p. 386, April, 2013.
“Sometimes people's careers take off on their first albums, sometimes they don't.”

Source : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. December 1, 2010.
“Anyone who has spent five seconds in my company, or two seconds in my bedroom knows that I am not a white supremacist.”
“There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.”
“Kant takes a free will to be a being or substance with the power to cause a state of the world (or a whole series of such states) spontaneously or from itself.”

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