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A profoundly disturbing thing you discover very quickly traveling in Cuba is that the most dangerous person for Cubans isn't the police or even the secret police; it's their neighbor. Anyone can report you for anything 'outside' the revolution - even if you haven't done it yet.
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
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Ali vs. Stevenson would have served as a symbolic battle between the United States and Cuba, capitalism and communism: Castro's values instilled in his boxers pitted against the values of 'merchandise' boxers from the rest of the world.
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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
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America is the best half-educated country in the world.
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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God has written all the books.
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An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed.
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An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
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An offer to fight Muhammad Ali came after Stevenson won his second Olympic gold in Montreal in 1976. Stevenson was at his peak. The world had never seen a heavyweight with the tools Stevenson brought into the ring.
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Anyone can see why an elite athlete would want to leave a small, impoverished country where their skills were effectively uncashed winning lottery tickets. All they had to do was wash ashore almost anywhere else in the world and cash in. Yet the vast majority of Cuban boxers - and Cuban athletes in general - despite that incentive, stayed.
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Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
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As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
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At a certain point, Mike Tyson and I reacted to violence a little differently. I was afraid to leave my house for three years while he became the heavyweight champion of the world. The thing was, at first, we reacted to it the same way, and our cowardice and trauma defined us.
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Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will go and leave a lot of money to the very people who will be the first to throw stones at the next person who has anything to say and finds a difficulty in getting a hearing.
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