Eduardo Galeano quote: "The dreams were off on a trip. Helena went as far as the train station with them. She bade them farewell from the platform, waving a handkerchief"

The Church says: the body is a sin.
Science says: the body is a machine.
Advertising says:...
EDUARDO GALEANO

Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty...
EDUARDO GALEANO

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
EDUARDO GALEANO

History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.'
EDUARDO GALEANO

In the Age of the Almighty Computer, drones are the perfect warriors. They kill without remorse, obe...
EDUARDO GALEANO

The walls are the publishers of the poor.
EDUARDO GALEANO

Each time a new war is disclosed in the name of the fight of the good against evil, those who are ki...
EDUARDO GALEANO

Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small,...
EDUARDO GALEANO

The world is becoming an immense military base, and that base is becoming a mental hospital the size...
EDUARDO GALEANO

My language is a feel-thinking language, feeling and thinking at once, that is why it is a celebrati...
EDUARDO GALEANO

Reality is very, very contradictory, and so I try to write just perfecting what I see, what I read, ...
EDUARDO GALEANO

I wanted to be a soccer player, and I became the best of the best, the number one, better than Marad...
EDUARDO GALEANO

Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as w...
EDUARDO GALEANO

Almost all wars, perhaps all, are trade wars connected with some material interest. They are always ...
EDUARDO GALEANO

Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abys...
EDUARDO GALEANO

Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny.
EDUARDO GALEANO

I remember that - you know, I didn't receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevide...
EDUARDO GALEANO

I am grateful to journalism for waking me up to the realities of the world.
EDUARDO GALEANO

If nature were a bank, they would have already rescued it.
EDUARDO GALEANO

We have a memory cut in pieces. And I write trying to recover our real memory, the memory of humanki...
EDUARDO GALEANO

There is a tradition that sees journalism as the dark side of literature, with book writing at its z...
EDUARDO GALEANO

Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim.
EDUARDO GALEANO

Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.
EDUARDO GALEANO

Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of word...
EDUARDO GALEANO

The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear.
EDUARDO GALEANO

Whoever believes physical size and tests of speed or strength have anything to do with a soccer play...
EDUARDO GALEANO

I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population...
EDUARDO GALEANO

Each day has a story to - deserves to be told, because we are made of stories. I mean, scientists sa...
EDUARDO GALEANO

I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ...
EDUARDO GALEANO

The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a bi...
EDUARDO GALEANO

Hay criminales que proclaman tan campantes ‘la maté porque era mía’, así no más, como si fue...
EDUARDO GALEANO

The more the technocrats programme it down to the smallest detail, the more the powerful manipulate ...
EDUARDO GALEANO

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
EDUARDO GALEANO

The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret. Every year, without making a sound, three Hi...
EDUARDO GALEANO

I'm a writer obsessed with remembering: with remembering the past of America above all - and abo...
EDUARDO GALEANO

In 1492, the natives discovered they were Indians; they discovered they lived in America.
EDUARDO GALEANO

The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compli...
EDUARDO GALEANO

And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and ...
EDUARDO GALEANO

I am not particularly interested in
saving time; I prefer to enjoy it.
EDUARDO GALEANO

I am quite prehistoric, absolutely prehistoric.
EDUARDO GALEANO

تصفر الريح في داخلي.
أنا عار. سيد اللا شيء, سيد لا أحد,...
EDUARDO GALEANO

Bernal Diaz del Castillo, faithful comrade of Hernán Cortes in the conquest of Mexico, wrote that t...
EDUARDO GALEANO

I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead, 'A pretty move, for the lo...
EDUARDO GALEANO

From 8 A.M. until noon, I am pessimistic. Then from 1 P.M. until 4, I feel optimistic.
EDUARDO GALEANO

Porque los rayos del amor y del odio atraviesan de un salto la más espesas selvas y los ríos más ...
EDUARDO GALEANO

The dictatorship of fear is over.
EDUARDO GALEANO

I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population...
EDUARDO GALEANO

The walls are the publishers of the poor
EDUARDO GALEANO

This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart.
EDUARDO GALEANO

The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.
EDUARDO GALEANO

The Stadium

Have you ever entered an empty stadium? Try it. Stand in the middle of the fi...
EDUARDO GALEANO

Utopia lies at the horizon.
When I draw nearer by two steps,
it retreats two steps.
I...
EDUARDO GALEANO

The vicious circle is perfect: foreign debt and foreign investment oblige us to multiply exports tha...
EDUARDO GALEANO

The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing. Our par...
EDUARDO GALEANO

Is everything forbidden us except to fold our arms? Poverty is not written in the stars; under devel...
EDUARDO GALEANO

The Spaniards owned the cow, but others drank the milk.
EDUARDO GALEANO

Os guaraos, que habitam os subúrbios do Paraíso terrestre, chamam o arco-íris de serpente de cola...
GALEANO EDUARDO

The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hi...
EDUARDO GALEANO

The Latin American cause is about all a social cause: the rebirth of Latin America must start with t...
EDUARDO GALEANO

Bolivians die with rotted lungs so that the world may consume cheap tin.
EDUARDO GALEANO

Pedro Algorta, a lawyer, showed me the fat dossier about the murder of two women. The double crime h...
EDUARDO GALEANO

Mis certezas desayunan dudas.
EDUARDO GALEANO

Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how ...
EDUARDO CHILLIDA

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.
EDUARDO CHILLIDA

One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
EDUARDO CHILLIDA

What comes from oneself, is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link.
EDUARDO CHILLIDA

Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main...
EDUARDO CHILLIDA

To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try...
EDUARDO CHILLIDA

Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be foun...
EDUARDO CHILLIDA

Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
EDUARDO CHILLIDA

Globalization has produced a new of level of interdependence among us. The economy and multinational...
EDUARDO PAES

I strongly believe being mayor is the public post in which you have the greatest opportunity to chan...
EDUARDO PAES

When Seoul hosted the Games in 1988, it became a symbol of the Asian Tigers' ascent onto the wor...
EDUARDO PAES

The hand has the richest articulation of space.
EDUARDO CHILLIDA

Rio's a beautiful city, a vibrant place, special place.
EDUARDO PAES

I am obligated and I will pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes to the American government. I...
EDUARDO SAVERIN

Rio is an energetic, vibrant place, full of beauty and nature. But we face the kinds of problems any...
EDUARDO PAES

There is no time and space in the digital world. People chat and collaborate through social networks...
EDUARDO PAES

Civil movements and riots are as old as human civilization. Long before Twitter was created, mobiliz...
EDUARDO PAES

We invaded to get him [Aristide] out. Now we've got the guy who succeeded Aristide as the president.
EDUARDO GAMARRA

Elected representatives are so embedded in the basic notion of what constitutes a democratic nation ...
EDUARDO PAES

Political movements and mega sporting events have always gone hand in hand. In 1980, there were Cold...
EDUARDO PAES

Smart cities are those who manage their resources efficiently. Traffic, public services and disaster...
EDUARDO PAES

I really do believe that mayors have the political position to really change people's lives.
EDUARDO PAES

Era curiosa la forma como había adoptado el dolor que sentía. Había tenido tanto tiempo para prep...
EDUARDO SACHERI

- ¿Sabe que es lo peor de todo?
Lo miré. No supe qué decir.
- Que la voy olvidando.
EDUARDO SACHERI

A veces es asombroso el daño que podemos causar sin proponérnoslo
EDUARDO SACHERI

Cuando no se pueden decir las cosas, las miradas se cargan de palabras.
EDUARDO SACHERI

El "pero" es la palabra más puta que conozco -. "te quiero, pero..."; "podría ser, pero..."; "no e...
EDUARDO SACHERI

It's better. For once, most of the fluid is almost out. But it's still stiff.
EDUARDO NAJERA

If you were a food, you'd be a tortilla because without you, I can't enjoy anything.
EDUARDO VILLA

Don Emilio and Lucio Tan are not exactly on good terms. So there is something to this.
EDUARDO ERMITA

Various irregular forces are operating on their own. It's easy for them not to follow the higher-ups...
EDUARDO ERMITA

We are not interested in becoming the Saudi Arabia of ethanol. It's not our strategy because it does...
EDUARDO CARVALHO

There is no longer a figurehead ruling with a fist of iron; Martin is an unknown. If results don't i...
EDUARDO PENA

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao looks like a great adventure.
EDUARDO CHILLIDA

We have very ambitious expansion plans. We are planting more sugar cane fields. We are building new ...
EDUARDO CARVALHO

A single wave is nothing, it does not interest me. But after this wave comes another, and then yet a...
EDUARDO CHILLIDA

The Earth is slow.
EDUARDO CHILLIDA

The conditions you need to be a good goalkeeper are exactly the same conditions you need to be a goo...
EDUARDO CHILLIDA

Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to d...
EDUARDO CHILLIDA

If you were a food, you'd be a tortilla because without you, I can't enjoy anything. #OnlyHispanicTh...
EDUARDO VILLA

In Rio we built a Center of Operations, a situation room that gathers information from municipal dep...
EDUARDO PAES

I like hitting left-handed pitchers, I really do; that's my forte.
EDUARDO PEREZ

We began to blend increasing quantities of ethanol in our gasoline pool.
EDUARDO CARVALHO

It's almost ridiculous to think that somebody could have won the election that hadn't had something ...
EDUARDO GAMARRA

He now seems to be moderating his view on foreign investors generally. He has met with the La Paz an...
EDUARDO GAMARRA

It's becoming a one-party state and that's problematic.
EDUARDO GAMARRA

The next government will have the greatest legitimacy of any administration since the return to demo...
EDUARDO GAMARRA

I think sooner or later they are going to have to at least give the kids papers.
EDUARDO GAMARRA

If you ask me to name one success, it's hard.
EDUARDO GAMARRA

A smile can cause a chain reaction of happiness
EDUARDO MONROY

The horse is doing well, but for myself, let's say it's possible that business goes in cycles. It's ...
EDUARDO INDA

He works longer distances because you have to be very fit to run in these races. He went a very good...
EDUARDO INDA

He's out of conditions; so he can't run in an allowance race. If I ran him in a little stakes at a m...
EDUARDO INDA

We're asking that he be removed from negotiations. He's not a valid negotiator.
EDUARDO TORRES

Yes, (Gonzales) said there’s a contract, ... But he did not (explain it) and said, ‘Sir, I’ll ...
EDUARDO ERMITA

Very quietly, Bush got an endorsement of 29 of the 34 Summit of the Americas countries, ... He met w...
EDUARDO GAMARRA

Very quietly, Bush got an endorsement of 29 of the 34 Summit of the Americas countries. He met with ...
EDUARDO GAMARRA

He had a very good trip, and it was a good ride. I saw when he got position he was in good shape. I ...
EDUARDO INDA

What comes from oneself, is nearly from no one... There is only me as a link.
EDUARDO CHILLIDA

Chavez has an inflated sense of importance because he's had an unbroken series of successes. The onl...
EDUARDO GAMARRA

We leave it to the people's discernment on whether their attacks on the president are in keeping wit...
EDUARDO ERMITA

Every time you think of a city, you have to think green, green, green. Every time you see concrete j...
EDUARDO PAES

I have the best job in the world. I wake up every morning energized at the thought of running Rio de...
EDUARDO PAES

In Rio, 1.4 million of the 6.3 million people live in favelas, or slums. They are all over the city,...
EDUARDO PAES

Hosting the Olympic Games of course guarantees the world's attention, but there is more to it th...
EDUARDO PAES

For charity purposes, how do I help? A lot of prospective levers and tools have come into my life.
EDUARDO SAVERIN

Google is omniscient of what people search for and do. Facebook has over a billion subscribers, mean...
EDUARDO PAES

What we are witnessing is the birth of something I call 'Polisdigitocracy.' This is a form o...
EDUARDO PAES

This [budget cuts] is part of a reoccurring problem under the Lula government.
EDUARDO ROCHE

This is a tremendously suspicious deal. Once again the influence of minority groups, of the Catalan ...
EDUARDO ZAPLANA

There is evidence of political interests behind this affair.
EDUARDO ZAPLANA

The donors conference starts on a good footing because they agreed (at the U.N.) on the goals.
EDUARDO ZAPLANA

We're not miracle workers. But can take away some of their worries and turn them into the home they'...
EDUARDO XOL

But if they need us, we'll stay all day.
EDUARDO XOL

The next couple of days is when the bulk of the work comes in for us.
EDUARDO XOL

We're going to march for the respect and independence of unions and we're going to march to support ...
EDUARDO TORRES

I just came to help them, because the United States really needs them.
EDUARDO TORRES

The lightning went straight into them and killed them instantly.
EDUARDO SUAREZ

When the tide goes out, many people will be found to be not wearing pants.
EDUARDO SUAREZ

If we are in a position to assist Santiago Alvarez in some way, we will do so.
EDUARDO SOTO

Obviously, this is going to come to a head very quickly here. They've got to show some likelihood th...
EDUARDO SOTO

It means the government will check through the entire case: his past, services to the US Army, his l...
EDUARDO SOTO

No school from grammar to college and no shopping or selling.
EDUARDO SOTELO

We have to demonstrate that we came here to succeed. There are different ways to show we love the Un...
EDUARDO SOTELO

I was talking about how we need to be united to demonstrate that we're not bad guys and we're not cr...
EDUARDO SOTELO

People can, however, do a great deal to protect themselves, their families, and their communities, ....
EDUARDO SANCHEZ

We're concerned that with the increased travel during the holidays, the flu situation could worsen.
EDUARDO SANCHEZ

We're seeing a lot of influenza earlier in the season than usual,
EDUARDO SANCHEZ

And those who were exposed are being evaluated in the various shelters for types of exposure and mon...
EDUARDO SANCHEZ

Many of these kids were not exposed to floodwater,
EDUARDO SANCHEZ

Layered materials have very amazing structures. Their complex architecture allows you to mix very we...
EDUARDO SAIZ

Because we can control the freezing of ice we could get very sophisticated structures.
EDUARDO SAIZ

While youth are excellent candidates for making use of this artificial bone, older patients who want...
EDUARDO SAIZ

The dividends outlook is disappointing. The proposal for the dividend payment this year will hurt th...
EDUARDO ROCHE

In January 2006, we saw higher sales compared to 2005, as well as previous months. Usually January i...
EDUARDO ROCHE

Bad debt was very high and the problem increased in the final quarter. The company needs to manage t...
EDUARDO ROCHE

In the northeast, [Brazil's largest mobile operator] Vivo may be interested, but the licenses are fo...
EDUARDO ROCHE

It would represent a major turnaround in Tim's strategy, but Vodafone are very aggressive and they c...
EDUARDO ROCHE

The land grab has ended earlier than expected. This has got to be good in the short term.
EDUARDO ROCHE

This is a national tragedy because of the rains. There isn't a corner of the country where there isn...
EDUARDO RIVERA

It's stuff that wasn't addressed the first time around, and we're picking them up now.
EDUARDO RAMIREZ

They have a short life span.
EDUARDO RAMIREZ

It's the only thing I ever learned how to do.
EDUARDO RAMIREZ

Suddenly, I see the wall falling past the window. I was afraid somebody would be walking on the side...
EDUARDO PEREZ

I heard a big thunder and saw debris. I came out and saw the whole mess right here.
EDUARDO PEREZ

This program will bring major development to Mexico in the real estate field, as well as in the cons...
EDUARDO PEREZ

It's an honor to be offered a contract by Cleveland, especially after the season they had last year....
EDUARDO PEREZ

If I have to hit a home run, I know I'm able to do it. But if I have to move a runner over, I can do...
EDUARDO PEREZ

These concessions should have been made years ago,
EDUARDO PEREZ

Can you believe some of that stuff?
EDUARDO PEREZ

Fun thing? Fun thing? This is a job. This isn't fun. This is a job. This is a passion.
EDUARDO PEREZ

It was Doug Waechter's night. He went out there and he competed. He competed in front of his home cr...
EDUARDO PEREZ

Martin needs to do something fast. A lot of members want elections.
EDUARDO PENA

This was a game for history.
EDUARDO PARET

We're all enthusiastic, crazy to reach that moment when we will step out on the field in Puerto Rico...
EDUARDO PARET

The industrial production is a good figure and it gives a sign that the IMACEC (economic growth indi...
EDUARDO ORPIS

I believe the exchange rate could have a small reaction (to the rate hike). If the peso opened today...
EDUARDO ORPIS

I'm surprised how low this (the December result) is.
EDUARDO ORPIS

It's a good figure, though within expectations.
EDUARDO ORPIS

If the projected 20 percent cuts in funding for the 2006-2007 fiscal year occur, it will cripple the...
EDUARDO OLIVAREZ

A slight increase in MDR cases causes us to use more money and more manpower to treat those cases.
EDUARDO OLIVAREZ

In my opinion, the growth of this (drug resistance) could be considered an epidemic situation.
EDUARDO OLIVAREZ

It's just taking a bit longer.
EDUARDO NAJERA

He said it's always nice beating the team that he coached.
EDUARDO NAJERA

I'm sure it's going to be pretty wild. Sacramento is wild, regardless. We know it.
EDUARDO NAJERA

I guess it is. That tip had a really good chance to go in.
EDUARDO NAJERA

To tell you the truth, that's the way we played last year. We pretty much played free.
EDUARDO NAJERA

I don't know. I didn't see the play. I need to see it again. But most of the time, it's a violation ...
EDUARDO NAJERA

We've just got to stay positive. We've just got to keep on working. We've got a great coach and we'v...
EDUARDO NAJERA

That's the beauty of our division. We're not so far behind and we feel that if we get on a winning s...
EDUARDO NAJERA

You learn more from defeat than you do from victory. We've been through a lot the last month, and we...
EDUARDO NAJERA

It was a very exciting game to play and to watch. Every single detail counted. Every steal. Every re...
EDUARDO NAJERA

I didn't expect business to boom right away. I know it will pick up.
EDUARDO MARTINEZ

It is not a very upscale neighborhood. We will soon begin to accept food stamps.
EDUARDO MARTINEZ

It's a two-way avenue. The Central Minnesota area has ... industries that would be suitable and that...
EDUARDO MARTINEZ

(Yale) maintains that these archeological artifacts belong to humanity, but at the same time it is t...
EDUARDO FERRERO

The Peruvian government ... will bring a suit against Yale University before the American courts.
EDUARDO FERRERO

The markets could be doing even better. That kind of political noise disturbs the investment environ...
EDUARDO FAVRIN

The dreams were off on a trip. Helena went as far as the train station with them. She bade them farewell from the platform, waving a handkerchief

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