Latin Quotes - Page 11

• We the undersigned, intend to establish an instruction and training institution which differs from the common elementary schools principally in that it will embrace, outside of (in addition to) the general and elementary curriculum, all branches of the classical high school, which are necessary for a true Christian and scientific education, such as: Religion, the Latin, Greek, Hebrew, German, French and English languages; History, Geography, Mathematics, Physics, natural history, Introduction to Philosophy, Music, and Drawing.

  C. F. W. Walther

  Christian, Philosophy, School

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• There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.

  Barbara Amiel

  Wall, Military, America

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• When my neighbor walks the dogs, he performs a ritual act of sacer simplicitas, to use the church Latin: "sacred simplicity." Walking the dog is in truth a ritual of renewal and revival on an intimate scale - a small rebirth of well-being on a daily basis.

  Robert Fulghum

  Dog, Journey, Hiking

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• The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.

  Lytton Strachey

  Simplicity, Unity, Genius

  Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.22, Delphi Classics

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• The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become accustomed to suffering with clenched teeth.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Years, America, Community

  "Eduardo Galeano, leading voice of Latin American left, dies aged 74" by Ashifa Kassam, Sam Jones, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2015.

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• The countries made themselves independent from Spain, but only changed owners, who stayed in positions of power were the criollos, the Spanish descendants who were the new administrators of power and wealth in the country. And those families for generations have maintained themselves in positions of power. Latin America founded itself on everyone being equal, but in reality we aren't.

  Bocafloja

  Country, Independent, Reality

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a nice day."

  Peter Brodie

  Education, Nice, Fretting

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• I did not try to conform to anybody's ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a lot of hits for it.

  Rosie Perez

  Stars, Trying, Should

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• Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek.

  Robert Fitzgerald

  Greek, Different, Matter

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• Brazil has a lot of issues that are similar to a lot of countries in Latin America, but the dominant issue Brazil is dealing with is poverty and political corruption.

  Morena Baccarin

  Country, America, Issues

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  America, No Money, Latin America

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• Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'.

  Lin Biao

  Europe, Cities, Gdp

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• Whether I'm trying to figure out what the U.S. military is doing in Latin America or Africa, Afghanistan or Qatar, the response is remarkably uniform - obstruction and obfuscation, hurdles and hindrances. In short, the good old-fashioned military runaround.

  Nick Turse

  Military, Qatar, America

  "The Classic Military Runaround" by Nick Turse, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 8, 2013.

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• I want to see religious instruction and sermons held in German in the mosques. The ideal, in my view, would be for imams to be trained in Germany and to speak our language, just as the Roman Catholic Church now holds mass in German and gave up Latin long ago.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Religious, Long Ago, Views

  "SPIEGEL Interview with Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble: 'We Have No Relationship to our Diverse Muslim Society'". Interview with Jan Fleischhauer and Holger Stark, www.spiegel.de. September 20, 2006.

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• Latin America and the Caribbean are the happiest on average in the world.

  Max Fisher

  Average, America, World

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I don't listen to a lot of music when I have my free time. But I'll go to a jazz club and have a drink and listen to a good jazz musician. Or sometimes in the morning, if I want to put myself in a good mood, I'll put on some Latin music.

  Joshua Bell

  Morning, Musician, Clubs

  "Joshua Bell’s Virtuoso Reality". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May 2011.

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• I was reading books about the Nazi presence not only in Argentina, but all over Latin America, and time and after time this information would come up.

  Lucia Puenzo

  Book, Reading, America

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I really am happy that I met my agency and my management company, because they see me as a person and not just a Latin woman.

  Daniella Alonso

  Agency, Management, Mets

  "Daniella Alonso: A Back Stage Exclusive". Interview with Noah Laracy, www.backstage.com. September 28, 2010.

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• It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures of Germany, Italy, Japan, Latin America and Russia.

  Natan Sharansky

  Russia, Japan, America

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• The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek.

  E. V. Lucas

  Education, Greek, Doubt

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• Oh, you're in television! That's interesting. No, I mean, the word television is interesting. It's a hybrid, you see: tele- comes from the greek, and -vision comes from the latin. It should have been either "telerama", or "procolvision".

  Graham Chapman

  Mean, Should Have, Interesting

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• My wife said I look like a Latin American dictator. I said, 'That's what I am'

  Oscar de la Renta

  Wife, Looks, Dictator

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• A white leftist Mexican activist isn't the same in the media as the son of a farmer in Guerrero, they aren't worth the same. In the same imaginary of the Latin American Left exists a racism, a racism that corresponds to processes of colonialism internal to almost all countries in Latin America.

  Bocafloja

  Country, Son, Media

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• Latin America wants to decriminalize at least marijuana (maybe more or course;) the US wants to maintain it. An interesting story. There seems to me no easy way out of this.

  Noam Chomsky

  Marijuana, America, Interesting

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?

  Josh Billings

  Significant, Wit, Caution

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