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Simón Bolívar

Simón Bolívar

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Public jobs belong to the State; they are not the heritage of individuals. None who lacks probity, skills, and merits is worthy of them.

Simón Bolívar

Simón Bolívar

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Legislators certainly need a school of ethics.

Simón Bolívar

Simón Bolívar

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First the native soil than nothing. Our life is nothing but the inheritance of our country.

Simón Bolívar

Simón Bolívar

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All the peoples of the world who have struggled for freedom have ultimately exterminated their tyrants.

Simón Bolívar

Simón Bolívar

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A happy soldier acquires no right to command his homeland. He is not the arbiter of laws or government. He is the defender of its freedom.

Simón Bolívar

Simón Bolívar

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I am always faithful to the liberal and just system proclaimed by my homeland.

Heinrich Böll

Heinrich Böll

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Atheists bore me: they're always talking about God.

Heinrich Böll

Heinrich Böll

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Being an adult means forgetting how often we have felt disconsolate as children.

Heinrich Böll

Heinrich Böll

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One has to go very far, to know how far one can go.

Heinrich Böll

Heinrich Böll

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Perhaps I was realizing what the working world meant: doing things without having the desire to do them.

Heinrich Böll

Heinrich Böll

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Courtesy is actually the most effective form of contempt.

Heinrich Böll

Heinrich Böll

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It is seen that integrity, combined with methodical intelligence, is not desired anywhere, not even in prisons or administration.