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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible.
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Both for Havana's beauty and decay, it's very hard to restrain yourself from staring everywhere you look.
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Boxing distills and illuminates the essence of an athlete. There's nowhere to hide. Boxers live and perform at the extremes. They provide us with answers about a given contest, but more important, they ask us fundamental questions about human narratives. What does this person really stand for? How far will he go to defend it?
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Bullfighting is every bit as ghoulish and savage as its critics warn, but it is equally as powerful and moving as its supporters insist. Perhaps the most vexing aspect about it is that neither group is wrong: they are both telling the truth.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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Castro always used the boxers as a symbolic war against American values to demonstrate that they fight for something more than money.
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Castro branded Rigondeaux a 'traitor' and 'Judas' to the Cuban people.
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Castro was always using his athletes as a way of symbolically defeating the United States in the ring, and after these Cubans defeated Americans in the ring, they were turning down exorbitant sums to leave the island.
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Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to.
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Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
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Cuban athletes represent the most expensive human cargo on earth. They are sitting on over a billion dollars of human capital if these boxers and baseball players would come over to any other field or ring in the world and begin to ply their trade.
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Cuban eyes often look close to tears. Tears never seem far away because both their pain and their joy are always so close to the surface.
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Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.
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Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire.
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Education is not the filling of the pail, but, the lighting of the fire.
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Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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