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"Nearly every day, we are bombarded with “news” about problems in Venezuela. And certainly, there are problems, such as food and medicine shortages and skyrocketing inflation. But there is something th…"

— Daniel Kovalik

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"Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it—but there is."

— Olive Schreiner

Literature1855–1920

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"I hate, I loathe, I despise Junkers and junkerdom. I have no earthly use for the Junkers of Germany, and not one particle more use for the Junkers in the United States."

— Eugene V. Debs

Politics1855–1926

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"The summer was heavy with a kind of soft grey-blue weight in the sky—yet not in the sky, for it was as though there were no sky, but only air, an impalpable grey-blue substance, drugged with the weigh…"

— Mervyn Peake

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