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Quotes & Thinkers from Brazil

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"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."

Isaac Newton· b. 1934View quote →

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"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."

"La raison, c'est l'intelligence en exercice; l'imagination c'est l'intelligence en érection"

"We want to have a great Brazil just like Trump wants to have a great America."

"So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you."

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🇧🇷Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Politics

b. 1945

"If the US is the country that most contributes with greenhouse gases, in the world, it should assume more responsibility to reduce emissions."

"Apple has some tremendous assets, but I believe without some attention, the company could, could, could — I'm searching for the right word — could, could die."

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🇧🇷Ronaldo

Music

"I don't know my weight. By knowing, I get a little traumatized. I purposely try to avoid getting on a scale."

"...Our spiritual attachment to nature transcends religion, being part of our innermost nature as a thinking species in a mysterious cosmos."

"We cannot rest while Brazilians are going hungry, while families are living in the streets, while poor children are abandoned to their own fates and while crack and crack dens rule."

"To be the best in the world in anything, even 'long distance spitting', implies a grave, heavy and suffocating responsibility."

"It's funny, the power of beauty, to make us forget such injustice. É estranho o poder da beleza, que nos faz esquecer tanta injustiça."

"To make the digital world join in the samba…"

"“Success is not an accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do"

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🇧🇷George Müller

Entertainment

"As to the other means of grace I would say: I fell into the snare, into which so many young believers fall, the reading of religious books in preference to the Scriptures."

"The Internet is the great highway of the modern communication, free and independent."

"They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?"

"Lula is not, and never was, fit to be a president."

"Thales of Miletus from The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy"

"The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained."

"The law can't be adapted to people. People have to adapt to the law."

"What is modernity? Is it defending foreign interests, or defending interests of our country?"

"Theatre is a form of knowledge; it should and can also be a means of transforming society. Theatre can help us build our future, rather than just waiting for it."

"You can't say 'I'll sell Silva and buy a similar player'. There are no similar players around, only worse ones."

"The 23-year-old took to manage, for efficiency, and risking gained experience, his mother disappointed, do not know what does, but it's conformed with what happened."

"Tupi or not tupi - That is the question."

"Was that, then, the way we do things? "Not knowing"— was that the way the most profound things happened? ... Was the secret of never escaping from the greater life the secret of living like a sleepwalker?"

"Instead of constantly talking about motivation, organizations should ensure that employees are occasionally delighted."

"“It is not by chance that when arriving in the favelas the police quickly hoist a flag as a signal of territorial control. That is because these territories are seen … as the enemy’s territory."

"I think it would not work. I would be very jealous. It would be better if it was just sex."

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🇧🇷Luciano Henrique Trindade

Education

b. 1974

"“to Be or to Be! No to not to be! That is the question."

"How can the reality of 600 million Chinese be ignored?"

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🇧🇷Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Literature

1902–1987

"Não sei quando virá o amanhecer, por isso abro todas as portas" = "Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door." Emily Dickinson."

"Nobody precisely knew where he born, but it's known it wasn't in São Paulo, nor in Rio de Janeiro, nor in Pará. It was wrong trying to find in this man any kind of regionalism. Before anything, Quaresma was a Brazilian."

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🇧🇷Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira

Music

"God is a white Light, cosmic, gorgeous one..."

"Restoration of peatlands is a low hanging fruit, and among the most cost-effective options for mitigating climate change."

🇧🇷José Guilherme Merquior

Science

1941–1991

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"What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul"

— Victor Hugo, b. 1802View →

"Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other."

— Victor Hugo, b. 1802View →

"The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only."

— Victor Hugo, b. 1802View →

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."

— Victor Hugo, b. 1802View →

"What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean."

— Isaac Newton, b. 1934View →

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