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“To those whom much is given, much is expected.”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

“If you conquer yourself, then you conquer the world”
― Paulo Coelho, Aleph

“Each time we embrace someone warmly, we gain an extra day of life.”
― Paulo Coelho, Aleph

“They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
― Malcolm X

“The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.”
― Mikhail Bakunin

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
― Plato

“Without the pen of Paine, the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain.”
― John Adams

“You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.”
― Leon Trotsky

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Vinieron. Ellos tenían la Biblia y nosotros teníamos la tierra. Y nos dijeron: "Cierren los ojos y recen", Y cuando abrimos los ojos, ellos tenían la tierra y nosotros teníamos la Biblia.”
― Eduardo Galeano