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Jose Marti
Age: 42 †
Born: 1853
Born: January 28
Died: 1895
Died: May 19
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Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.
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The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.
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Men are like the stars some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.
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Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.
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Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.
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I come from all places and to all places I go: I am art among the arts and mountain among mountains. I know the strange names of flowers and herbs and of fatal deceptions and magnificent griefs. In night's darkness I've seen raining down on my head pure flames, flashing rays of beauty divine.
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Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.
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Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
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Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.
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Strength comes from waiting.
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Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.
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Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.
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But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.
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In this world, there must be a certain degree of honor just as there must be a certain amount of light. When there are many men without honor, there will always be some others who bear in themselves the honor of many men.
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It is the duty of man to raise up man.
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Others go to bed with their mistresses I with my ideas.
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I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows.
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It is my duty to prevent, through the independence of Cuba, the U.S.A. from spreading over the West Indies and falling with addedweight upon other lands of Our America. All I have done up to now and shall do hereafter is to that end.... I know the Monster, because I have lived in its lair--and my weapon is only the slingshot of David.
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He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.
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