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Fidel Castro, Speech given in January 1963, calling for communist revolution in Latin America

The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names. – Chinese Proverb
Although the protesters in Egypt and neighboring countries are calling for democratic reforms, in reality they are calling for better economic life. Democracy is only a means to an end. I believe the driving forces behind the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings are economical. A chronic high unemployment combined with an inflation in food prices is a volatile mix that can lead to major civic outbursts. – Med Jones
Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change... – Barack Obama
We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider everything as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart. – Sir Walter Scott
Although personal calling I sense—who am I? even if I am, I don't know. – Dejan Stojanovic
Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color. – Don Hirschberg
Every calling is great when greatly pursued. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. – Oprah Winfrey
If we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them. – Christopher Darlington Morley
Is yours an honest lament?...Most are not, you know. Most self-imposed burdens are founded on misperceptions. We - at least we of sincere character - always judge ourselves by stricter standards than we expect others to abide by. It is a curse, I suppose, or a blessing, depending on how one views it... Take it as a blessing, my friend, an inner calling that forces you to strive to unattainable heights. – R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn
Like President Reagan, President Bush has not shied from calling evil by its name or declaring his intention to defeat its latest incarnation, terrorism, just as free men and women of all political persuasions, here and abroad, defeated fascism and communism before. – Donald Rumsfeld, Ronald Reagan Library and Museum, October 10, 2003
Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult. – Samuel Johnson
My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a- bitch. – Jack Nicholson
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment. – Thomas Jefferson
Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases 'revenue enhancement.' Not so. No one was fooled. – J Danforth Quayle
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand. – Hippocrates
The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
The medical professionals are a lot more comfortable calling it "depression" than calling it "loneliness. – Patch Adams
The price one pays for pursuing a profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. – James Arthur Baldwin
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. – James Baldwin
The price we pay when pursuing any art or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. – James Arthur Baldwin
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared ... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society. – Shirley Mount Hufstedler
We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder 'censorship,' we call it 'concern for commercial viability.' – James Russell Lowell
Whatever happened to that old-fashioned Grandpa If he still survives, he must be hiding in the small towns. You sure don't see him very often in the big city. The big-city Grandpa has gone big time. ... He is the life of every party, and out to prove he is just as young as he ever was. A grandchild who makes the mistake of calling him 'Gramps' is lucky if he isn't rewarded by a quick kick in the stomach. – Hal
Whatever task God is calling us to, if it is yours it is mine, and if it is mine it is yours. We must do it together-or be cast aside together. – Howard Hewlett Clark

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