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What you want is one thing, and what you cannot really obtain is another.

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Hugo Chavez
Age: 58 †
Born: 1954
Born: July 28
Died: 2013
Died: March 5
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Venezuela has changed forever.
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I love Jesus Christ. I am a Christian... I cry when I see injustice, children dying of hunger.
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That man, the king of vacations... the king of vacations in his ranch said nothing but, you have to flee, and didn't say how... that cowboy, the cowboy mentality.
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What would happen if we financed somebody in the U.S. to destabilize the government of George W. Bush? They would go to prison, certainly.
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What they have implanted here, which is really a 'gringo' custom, is terrorism. They disguise children as witches and wizards, that is contrary to our culture.
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I haven't any thirst for revenge.
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What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil.
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Let's save the human race, let's finish off the U.S. empire.
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I shook Obama's hand and I said, 'I want to be your friend.' My hand is still outstretched. I am not Obama's enemy, but it's difficult not see imperialism in Washington. Those who don't see it don't want to see it, like the ostrich.
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We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.
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Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.
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It makes one sad to see the sell-out of President Fox, really it makes one sad. How sad that the president of a people like the Mexicans lets himself become the puppy dog of the empire.
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For us Catholics, John Paul II will be remembered as a traveling Pope ... and we should also remember he preached world peace. When the United States invaded Iraq, for example, John Paul II said it was an illegal and immoral act.
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When imperialism feels weak, it resorts to brute force.
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I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet.
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I wish we could begin a new period of normal relations with the government of the United States.
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