simon bolivar quotes

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”When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right.” -Simon Bolivar

”A people that loves freedom will in the end be free.” -Simon Bolivar

”The art of victory is learned in defeat.” -Simon Bolivar

”Nations will march towards the apex of their greatness at the same pace as their education. Nations will soar if their education soars; they will regress if it regresses. Nations will fall and sink in darkness if education is corrupted or completely abandoned.” -Simon Bolivar

”Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves.”-Simon Bolivar

”To do something right it must be done twice. The first time instructs the second.”-Simon Bolivar

”The continuation of authority has frequently proved the undoing of democratic governments. Repeated elections are essential to the system of popular governments, because there is nothing so dangerous as to suffer power to be vested for a long time in one citizen. The people become accustomed to obeying him, and he becomes accustomed to commanding, hence the origin of usurpation and tyranny.”-Simon Bolivar

”In the unity of our nations rests the glorious future of our peoples.”-Simon Bolivar

”It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny.”-Simon Bolivar

”The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.”-Simon Bolivar

”Do not compare your material forces with those of the enemy. Spirit cannot be compared with matter. You are human beings, they are beasts. You are free, they are slaves.”-Simon Bolivar

”God grants victory to perseverance.”-Simon Bolivar

”The Ignorance the people live in leads them to commit mistakes against their own happiness.”-Simon Bolivar

”The first duty of a government is to give education to the people.”-Simon Bolivar

”Colombians! My last wish is for the happiness of the patria. If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the consolidation of the union, I shall be lowered in peace into my grave.”-Simon Bolivar

”A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into a tyranny; it disregards the principles which it should preserve, and finally degenerates into despotism. The distinguishing characteristic of small republics is stability: the character of large republics is mutability.”-Simon Bolivar

”The freedom of the New World is the hope of the Universe.”-Simon Bolivar

”If Nature is against us, we shall fight Nature and make it obey.”-Simon Bolivar

”He who serves a revolution ploughs a sea.”-Simon Bolivar

”Out of the most secure things, the most secure is to doubt.”-Simon Bolivar

”The three greatest fools (majaderos) of history have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote – and I!”-Simon Bolivar

”Morals and lights are our first necessities.”-Simon Bolivar

”Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?”-Simon Bolivar

”Let the entire system of government be strengthened, and let the balance of power be drawn up in such a manner that it will be permanent and incapable of decay because of its own tenuity.”-Simon Bolivar

”Republican democracy is overperfect and demands political virtues and talents far superior to our own.”-Simon Bolivar

”War lives on despotism and is not waged with God's love.”-Simon Bolivar

”Our hatred knows no bounds, and the war shall be to the death.”-Simon Bolivar

”Legislators could certainly do with a school of morals.”-Simon Bolivar

”Among the popular and representative systems of government I do not approve of the federal system: it is too perfect; and it requires virtues and political talents much superior to our own.”-Simon Bolivar

”Is it conceivable that a newly emancipated people can soar to the heights of liberty, and, unlike Icarus, neither have its wings melt nor fall into an abyss? Such a marvel is inconceivable and without precedent. There is no reasonable probability to bolster our hopes.”-Simon Bolivar

”Do not adopt the best system of government, but the one most likely to succeed.”-Simon Bolivar

”Slavery is the offspring of darkness.”-Simon Bolivar

”If Nature is opposed, we will fight her and make her obbey us.”-Simon Bolivar

”When mankind was in its infancy, steeped in uncertainty, ignorance, and error, was it possible to foresee what system it would adopt for preservation.”-Simon Bolivar

”Colombians! Gather around the constitutional congress. It represents the wisdom of the nation, the legitimate hope of the people, and the final point of reunion of the patriots”-Simon Bolivar

”The death of my wife placed me early in the road of politics, and caused me to follow the chariot of Mars”-Simon Bolivar

”If Miranda believed the Spaniards would observe the treaty, he should have remained to keep them to their word; if he did not, he was a traitor to have sacrificed his army to it”-Simon Bolivar

”We have been ruled more by deceit than by force, and we have been degraded more by vice than by superstition”-Simon Bolivar

”To do something right it must be done twice. The first time instructs the second”-Simon Bolivar

”Should I not let it be known to later generations that Alexander Petion is the true liberator of my country?”-Simon Bolivar

"They mistake pure illusion for reality, license for freedom, treason for patriotism, vengeance for justice”-Simon Bolivar

”It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny”-Simon Bolivar

”All who have served the Revolution have ploughed the sea”-Simon Bolivar

”A people that loves freedom will in the end be free”-Simon Bolivar

”Good morals, and not force are the pillars of the law”-Simon Bolivar

”God grants victory to perseverance”-Simon Bolivar

”Slavery is the worst human indignity”-Simon Bolivar

euclid

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euclid was a student of the great mouseion ("temple of the muses") in alexandria, like his later successor archimedes. among his many impressive scholarly works was a treatise outlining the four elements of the natural world.

of course, as any modern schoolchild knows, there are hundreds of natural elements, demonstrating that even a brilliant man like euclid was ultimately an ignorant savage in the grand scheme of things. suck it, old man.

chichen itza

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a historical temple complex tucked into the jungles of the yucatan in mexico, one of the more famous remnants of mayan culture.

chichen itza's central jewel is a pyramid called el castillo, the castle, itself known for the astonishingly painstaking detail used by its architects, who imbued the structure's design with veritable assloads of mathematical significance. the entire complex is almost perfectly arranged so the west-facing staircase of el castillo lines up with the equator, the temple of the warriors with the tropic of cancer, and the thousand columns with the tropic of capricorn, with the sunrise aligning with each on the appropriate equinoxes and solstices. the north-facing staircase of el castillo is decorated with a snaky motif that points in the direction of a sacred cenote, or underground sinkhole-lake.

it also makes funny noises when you clap near it. sort of a tennis ball noise. go on, try it.

beware of mayan stall vendors, they are at their most obdurate in chichen itza and may mob you in a desperate bid to sell you a bird call.

batman

respect me
A man with parents issues,he wonder around his city(also known as gotham city)punching people with a mental ilnesd,wearing a furry suit in the shape of a bat.

dolphin

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(n.) the grinning killer of the ocean depths, a squeaking sexual predator, a maritime molester, a blowholed bastard, a swirling nest of aquatic evil

considered one of nature's surprisingly intelligent animals

gravity

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(n.) a force emanating from all matter, generally only perceptible when it comes from very large amounts of matter; it acts on other matter by generating irresistible attraction, and thus gravity is also used as a synonym for another inescapable force, serious shit

redemption

the devils dictionary
Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin, through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned. The doctrine of Redemption is the fundamental mystery of our holy religion, and whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.

We must awake Man's spirit from its sin,
And take some special measure for redeeming it;
Though hard indeed the task to get it in
Among the angels any way but teaming it,
Or purify it otherwise than steaming it.
I'm awkward at Redemption — a beginner:
My method is to crucify the sinner.
—Golgo Brone
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

south africa

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The part of Africa where the natives got screwed by the Dutch, and then the British screwed both the natives and the Dutch, and then the Dutch and the British teamed up to really brutally screw the natives for decades.

Today the system of screwing ('apartheid') is dismantled and its aftereffects slowly being undone, but there's no help to be had for those crazy accents.

the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy

douglas adams
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book.
In fact it is probably the most remarkable book ever to come out of the great publishing houses of Ursa Minor - of which no Earthman had ever heard either.

(It is not an Earth book, and has never been published on Earth.)
(also: Earth)
Not only is it a wholly remarkable book, it is also a highly successful one-more popular than the Celestial Home Care Omnibus, better selling than Fifty More Things to do in Zero Gravity, and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes and Who is this God Person Anyway?(also: God)

In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitchhiker's Guide has already supplanted the great :Encyclopedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects

First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.(also: DON'T PANIC )

It looks rather like a largish electronic calculator. It has about a hundred tiny flat press buttons and a screen about four inches square on which any one of a million "pages" could be summoned at a moment's notice. It looks insanely complicated, and this is one of the reasons why the snug plastic it fitted into has the words Don't Panic printed on it in large friendly letters. The other reason was that this device is in fact that most remarkable of all books ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor. The reason why it was published in the form of a micro sub meson electronic component is that if it were printed in normal book form, an interstellar hitch hiker would require several inconveniently large buildings to carry it around in.

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