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  • New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.

    - Djuna Barnes
      'Greenwich Village  As It Is', in Pearson's Magazine, Oct.

  • Porque alla   los espan‹  oles y las otras naciones†como tienen historias divinas y humanas, saben por ellas cua  ndo empezaron a reinar sus Reyes y los ajenos†todo esto y mucho ma  s saben por sus libros. Empero vosotros, que carece  is de ellos, Que   memoria tene  is de vuestras antiguallas?, Quie  n fue el primero de nuestros Incas? Over there Spaniards and other nations know from their divine and human history when their Kings and other peoples' Kings began their reigns† Their books teach them all of this, and much more. But you, who have no books, what memories do you have of your ancient past? Who was our first Inca?

    - Inca Garcilaso de laVega
      Comentarios reales (TheRoyal Commentaries of Peru,1688), bk.1, ch.15.

  • Keep ye the lawbe swift in all obedience Clear the land of evil, drive the road and bridge the ford. Make ye sure to each his own That he reap where he hath sown; By thepeaceamongourpeopleslet men know weserve the Lord!

    - (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
      'A Song of the English'.

  • Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half devil and half child.

    - (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
      'The White Man's Burden'.

  • By all ye will or whisper, By all ye leave or do, The silent sullen peoples Shall weigh your God and you.

    - (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
      'The White Man's Burden'.

  • We the Peoples of the United Nations, determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, whichtwice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to 873 mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignityand worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom, and for these ends, to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one anotherasgood neighbours, and tounite our strengthto maintain international peace and security, and to ensure by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest, and to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples, have resolved to combine our efforts to accomplish these aims.

    -United Nations Charter
      26 Jun.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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