"I think that in politics, when people want to discredit a particular position, they say, "Oh, they are liberals," or "They are conservatives; we are centrists." Everybody wants to be a centrist."

-- Robert Reich

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“The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot. And although I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either. So what Iâ€™m left with is the memory of having learned something very wise that I canâ€™t quite remember.”
“It is important to eliminate the stigma created by American imperialism and its allies regarding the Cuban political system. That stigma must be eliminated. You may think that there are no direct elections in Cuba. I am going to tell that they are direct and you can compare our process with any other country including the United States.”

Source : "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.
“In the end, you can' t talk to everyone.”
“People talk about "job creation," as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people with machines.”
“Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.”
“Heartbreak has an archetypal core, all heartbroken individuals suffer from the same kind of torture.”
“Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.”
“Anyone who has walked through the deserted palaces of Versailles or Vienna realise how much of a part of the life of a nation is lost when a monarchy is abolished. If buckingham palace and windsor castle were transformed into museums, if one politician competed against another for president of the republic, Britain would be a sadder and less interesting place. Our politicians are not men such as could challenge more than a thousand years of history.”

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