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Walter Benjamin used to think that languages expand their register thanks to translation, because translation forces ways of using words and structures that were alien to the original speaker of the target language.

~Alvaro Enrigue

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A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children.

~Alveda King

Topics: Abortion Area Because Children Clinics High However Majority Many Minority Money Percent Perhaps Poor Say Serve Taking Terminate Want Will You

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Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.

~Alveda King

Topics: Also Because Become Binds Cannot Commit Equality Face Horror Human Injustices Lies More More And More Prisoners Racism Reveals Those Truth Until Victims Who

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I simply cannot vote for Senator Obama because he's not pro-life.

~Alveda King

Topics: Because Cannot He Obama Pro-Life Senator Simply Vote

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African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.

~Alveda King

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If black lives matter, then why is it that black women are more than five times as likely as a white woman to have an abortion? I think the womb that brings forth the black life should matter... Because black lives absolutely matter, what about the babies in that womb? What about that mama?

~Alveda King

Topics: Abortion About Absolutely Babies Because Black Brings Five Forth Life Likely Lives Mama Matter More Should Than Then Think Times White Why Woman Womb Women Women Are I Think

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I did have some secret abortions myself, which I repented from when I was born again in 1983. I drank the abortion Kool-Aid temporarily because I thought it was the answer.

~Alveda King

Topics: Abortion Again Answer Because Born Did Drank Myself Secret Some Temporarily Thought Which I Was Born

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I gravitated to economics because I'm interested in how people coordinate and collaborate with each other. Economics studies all the ways people get along with each other.

~Alvin E. Roth

Topics: Along Because Collaborate Coordinate Each Economics Get How Interested Other People Studies Ways

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We used to play the underground clubs like the UFO, and Middle Earth, and they were great because they would have on things like a poet, string quartets, and then a rock band! It was kinda cool!

~Alvin Lee

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I love my films. I have stacks and stacks of DVDs. I put 'Last of the Mohicans' on the other day with Daniel Day-Lewis. It hurts me to say it because he's a Millwall fan, but I think he's fantastic.

~Alvin Martin

Topics: Because Daniel Day Fan Fantastic Films He Hurts Last Love Me Other Put Say Think I Think I Love Dvds

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