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Color categories are on steroids in Latin America. I find that fascinating. It's very difficult for Americans, particularly African-Americans to understand or sympathize with.

And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.

The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high on the beach, and was creating and feeding other matters [science] at other ends of the world.

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

Always the same thing.

Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting.

More law, less justice.

While there's life, there's hope.

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms.

For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

Only that which is well done is quickly done.

Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.

When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.

The solitude lends much appeal, because a sea without a harbour surrounds it. Even a modest boat can find few anchorage, and nobody can go ashore unnoticed by the guards. Its winter is mild because it is enclosed by a range of mountains which keeps out the fierce temperature; its summer is unequal. The open sea is very pleasant and it has a view of a beautiful bay.

How can there be such anger in the minds of the gods?

Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace with a wand the wanderings of the heavens and foretell the rising of stars. But you, Roman, remember to rule the peoples with power (these will be your arts); impose the habit of peace, spare the vanquished and war down the proud!

Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.