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Eduardo Galeano has 89 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team.
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Nothing can be defined or derided on the basis of its origin. The important thing is what is done with it and…
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From the point of view of the economy, the sale of weapons is indistinguishable from the sale of food. When a building…
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In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed.
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It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll put his…
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The tree of life knows that, whatever happens, the warm music spinning around it will never stop. However much death may come,…
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The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.
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We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions and givers…
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Our effectiveness depends on our capacity to be audacious and astute, clear and appealing. I would hope that we can create a…
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To narrate is to give oneself: it seems obvious that literature, as an effort to communicate fully, will continue to be blocked…
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The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to…
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A pretty move, for the love of God.
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Languages are dying at an unprecedented rate. A language dies every 14 days.
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She is convinced that when language dies, out of carelessness, disuse, indifference and absence of esteem, or killed by fiat, not only…
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If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing…
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when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.
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It's a lot to ask of one creature, it's a lot to ask, that he should first behave as if he were…
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Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its…
— Eduardo Galeano
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