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“Someday men will learn to irrigate and spread fertilizer instead of praying for fertility.”

Poverty Agriculture Farming Fertility Fertilizer Irrigation Irrigation System

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“Poverty in western Mexico is an Unconditional Sentence.”

Poverty Economics Mexico Central America Economic Depression

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“Lopez made sandals out of one tire. He sold them at ten cents each, because people sometimes needed only one.”

Poverty Merchants Amputee

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“Feeling the inevitable claim of the this desert, he experienced a desire to throw off his civilized costume, hurl himself upon Josephina, either succumb, or return to Guadalajara, where men could only complain of having too many buttons to button or unbutton...”

Wealth Buttons Caste System Civilized Behavior Classicism First World Problems

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“My eyes are my greatest sin.”

Sin Seeing Sins

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“We should not scorn those whose fear is greater than our own.”

Fear Patience Scorn Fear Is The Mind Killer Scornful

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“The history of our country has taught us, above all, the virtue of patience. It will be many generations before we can have the conditions we seek.”

Government Revolution Patience Visionaries Patience And Timing

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“We are born with our father's names. We are not responsible for their failures. We are responsible for what they made us believe in. That is our only obligation. And it is even then a choice which we may sometimes be wise to ignore.”

Wisdom Parents Beliefs Parents And Children Fathers Belief Systems Fathers And Sons Fathers And Daughters Sins Of The Father Filial Love

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“A heroic, losing battle! I'm tired of brave men who die. There's nothing pretty about losing.”

Sacrifice Losing Bravery Mortality Heroism Warfare Martyrdom Losers Martyrs

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“Pity womankind, but never a woman.”

Women Inequality Woman Misogyny Womanhood Strength Of A Woman Womankind

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“Throughout world history, all freedom has been no more than repetitious abolishment of what has already been abolished. There is no end to the killing of weeds.”

Freedom Equality Civil Liberties Abolition Cultural Revolution Freedom Fighters Cultural Evolution

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“He would have been careful not to violate his conscience in any way that might keep him from devoting his full attention to the sin he had decided to commit. Pedro was not really very different from all men, at least in that. Not very different from the bank teller who makes sure to give every customer exact change, even while he is embezzling.”

Morality Ethics Breaking The Law Ethics And Moral Philosophy

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“Already he was realizing that he would be more ashamed of her in the city than he was here. Then, quite suddenly, he was not ashamed of her, but of himself. Deeply ashamed.”

Caste Classism Caste System Socioeconomics

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“There are hundreds of miracles within a single machine. Americans calmly explain these with mathematical formulas. Our difficulty is to learn, theirs to appreciate. We Latins, even the most intelligent of us, still count on our fingers and toes. But once we do learn, we shall surpass the Americano, because we understand the spiritual significance of a machine. We see the beauty of combining gas, grease and steel into a powerful, exact movement. We appreciate the material destiny of the universe.”

Machines Mexico Engineering Machinery Latino Romanticism Latin America Industrial Revolution Industrialization American Education Central America

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“He was given a ranch, and two lovely mistresses. 'Imagine, at thirty, I was put out to stud. And we Latins are such drowsy pigs that I almost fell for it.”

Mexico Latino Central America Ranching

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“Manuel was sent to Harvard, where he developed a profound contempt for American culture. 'The Americans,' he would say, 'brush their teeth before kissing and remember a page to answer a question.”

American Culture Protestantism American Education Memorization Standardized Testing Standardized Tests

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“Like all vain men, he had moments of unreasonable confidence.”

Vanity Insecurity Confidence Quotes Overconfidence Over Confidence Over Confident Confidence Vs Arrogance Dunning Kruger Effect Confidence Vs Cockiness

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“Such a brute should underneath all his braggart tricks, his viciousness, his vileness, be a coward. But I am convinced that he was not. Because even cowardice requires a certain degree of sensitivity, and a certain value for life.”

Cruelty Cowardice Brutality Psychopath Evil People Villains Sadistic Sadism Cowards Evil Men Sadist Sadists Psycopaths

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“As long as there are people in exile, there will be people who want to get back to their native soil.”

Exile Refugees Birthplace Asylum Country Of Origin Political Asylum

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“The best way to avoid becoming a scapegoat is to find one.”

Blame Scapegoat Blame Game Scapegoating Scapegoats Truisms Unpleasant Truth

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“He never did rid himself of the feeling that he had been denied his rightful place. It kept him from being good-natured, and made him unwilling to forget grudges.”

Bitter Bitterness Entitlement Grudges Self Entitlement

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“Those men have never done anything in their lives except stare at the clouds and the stars. The Indians take them food and tobacco, and on certain evenings gather around the fire as they tell their tribesmen all the strange thoughts and dreams which they have had. Huicholes believe that men cannot have pure thoughts if they are required to participate in the daily tasks of life.”

Latin America Oracles Indians Shamans Huichol People Huicholes Native Mexicans Oracle Of Delphi

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“There are hundreds of miracles within a single machine. Americans calmly explain these with mathematical formulas. Our difficulty is to learn, theirs to appreciate.”

Machines Engineering Industrial Revolution Taking Things For Granted Engineering Education

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“Love is everything unusual about a usual person.”

Love Quirks Character Flaws Unusual People

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“In the distance, mongrel dogs were howling out the coyote portion of their ancestry. All the sounds of the night seemed to pass through a hollow tunnel of indefinite length.”

Dogs Coyotes Deserts Time Dilation Night Sounds

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“Outside, he had a sudden feeling that at moments there was too much light for human eyes. It caused men to feel weak and befuddled.”

Confusion Sunlight Befuddle

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“The Huicholes were dangerous because they were not tainted by the fear of death. They accepted life as something caught between the sun and the earth in which man could only participate briefly. No amount of defeat could make them regard themselves as inferior. They had none of the fear of losing their beliefs that drives modern man to devise fantastic schemes. Above all else, the Huicholes were dangerous because they believed that their hour of triumph had not yet arrived. In the celebration that would follow, centuries of occupation would disappear, like dust scattered by the wind.”

Long Term Fear Of Death Indomitable Indomitable Spirit Long Term Plan Huichol People Huicholes Native Mexicans Hour Of Triumph

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“It would not be until darkness had taken indisputable control over the land, until the flames of the bonfire created an unreal world of shadows, until tequila and mescal untied men from their somber selves.”

Darkness Alcohol Tequila Fiesta Mezcal

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“There was nothing abstract or theoretical in his world. The stars had no significance. The sky was not interesting unless it showed probability of rain. He ate corn, corn, corn. He ate beans, beans, beans.”

Apathy Simple Life Straightforward Unthinking Incuriosity

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