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“They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people. Remove those few and a city exists no longer except as a pain in the memory, like a pain of an amputated leg no longer there.”
― Our Man in Havana
― Our Man in Havana
“Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing--
turn your toes out when you walk---
And remember who you are!”
― Through The Looking Glass
turn your toes out when you walk---
And remember who you are!”
― Through The Looking Glass
“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate."
(Los Angeles Times, July 20, 2003)”
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(Los Angeles Times, July 20, 2003)”
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