It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power. - Jose Saramago

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You always wish you made more money but I have had a lot of cool experiences. I have learnt so much by travelling the world and made some great friends in my travels.

Jose Saramago

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

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In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don't talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer's block, all those things that we hear about writers.

Block, Creating, Romanticize, Talk, Writing

The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.

Dream, Dreams, Illusion, Impossible, Novels, Subject

En ningún momento de la historia, en ningún lugar del planeta, las religiones han servido para que los seres humanos se acerquen unos a los otros. Por el contrario, sólo han servido para separar, para quemar, para torturar. No creo en dios, no lo necesito y además soy buena persona.

Atheist, Dio, Ningún, Otros, Soy, Unos

Blind people do not need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters.

Matters, Names, Nothing, People, Voice

There is relationship between sight and touch, something about eyes being able to see through the fingers touching the clay, about fingers being able to feel what the eyes are seeing without the fingers actually touching it.

Eye, Eyes, Fingers, Relationship, Sight, Touching

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Both the forces of good and evil will keep the universe alive for us, until we awake from our dreams and give up this building of mud pies.

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I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then.

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Duke Roufus

You always wish you made more money but I have had a lot of cool experiences. I have learnt so much by travelling the world and made some great friends in my travels.

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Wilma Mankiller

We celebrate Thanksgiving along with the rest of America, maybe in different ways and for different reasons. Despite everything that's happened to us since we fed the Pilgrims, we still have our language, our culture, our distinct social system. Even in a nuclear age, we still have a tribal people.

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Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder.

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