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The ones who died were innocent people, [security forces] had no right to take their lives. I know what type of person my husband was; he was humble, he loved life, he gave everything for his family. A fighter. Despite being a peasant, he never had his head down. – Ruth Barcena	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The hypotheses range from a greater propensity to homemade remedies, like medicinal herbs used in peasant tradition ; there are those who assume a more marked anti-authoritarian tendency than elsewhere, for historical reasons ; but I think more practical hypotheses should also be considered, such as logistical difficulties, for those who live at the bottom of a mountain valley, going to a city vaccination center can mean wasting a lot of time. – Thomas Widmann	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The vast majority of people are not rising up trying to overthrow the country. It’s not the proletariat, rising up, overthrowing the Bourgeoisie. And it never is, whether it's Cuba or North Korea or China or Russia or any of those so-called revolutions, these are Marxist efforts by a smaller percentage of society to control a larger percentage of society, these are not peasant revolutions. – Mark Levin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
A peasant between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. – Proverb	added by anonymous 4 years ago
Being an OEM is like being a peasant counting on a good year of rain. Why shouldn't we build our own brands, lower the price a bit and offer products that have the same quality as foreign brands. – Terry Wu	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every ‘superstar,’ every ‘supreme leader,’ every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. – Carl Sagan	added by Normando 5 years ago
It would be nice if he decided, once we are in power, to sell his Incauca farm to the government so we can give it to peasant farmers. – Gustavo Petro	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Before World War Two speaking in foreign languages was commonplace. You spoke in a different language with a Hungarian horse trader, a Jewish innkeeper or a Ukrainian peasant, that changed radically after the war. – Konstanty Gebert	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's easier for me in a way to have all the you know, when I put the wig on and I'm in these peasant clothes and, thank God, no high heels … and the accent, and there's just such a different it's just exciting. it’s a little different in that we have acting scenes together. We never had that in ‘Sons,’. – Katey Sagal	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. – John Updike	added by anonymous 10 years ago
A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but. – John Berger	added by anonymous 10 years ago
For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings an edge in the balance of power for a time, a chance to hire more mercenary soldiers for their wars. They ended up losing those wars anyway, and all that was left was a deadly inflation, a starving population, the rich richer, the poor poorer, and a ruined peasant class. – Hans Konig	added by anonymous 13 years ago
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince. – Plato	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value. – Abbe Guillaume Raynal	added by anonymous 13 years ago
They eat the dainty food of gamous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach. – Luigi Barzini	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Fr., I want there to be no peasant in my realm so poor that he will not have a chicken in his pot every Sunday. – King Henry IV of France	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself. – Assyrian Proverb	added by anonymous 14 years ago
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. – Johann von Goethe	added by anonymous 14 years ago

The ones who died were innocent people, [security forces] had no right to take their lives. I know what type of person my husband was; he was humble, he loved life, he gave everything for his family. A fighter. Despite being a peasant, he never had his head down.

– Ruth Barcena

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The hypotheses range from a greater propensity to homemade remedies, like medicinal herbs used in peasant tradition ; there are those who assume a more marked anti-authoritarian tendency than elsewhere, for historical reasons ; but I think more practical hypotheses should also be considered, such as logistical difficulties, for those who live at the bottom of a mountain valley, going to a city vaccination center can mean wasting a lot of time.

– Thomas Widmann

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The vast majority of people are not rising up trying to overthrow the country. It’s not the proletariat, rising up, overthrowing the Bourgeoisie. And it never is, whether it's Cuba or North Korea or China or Russia or any of those so-called revolutions, these are Marxist efforts by a smaller percentage of society to control a larger percentage of society, these are not peasant revolutions.

– Mark Levin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A peasant between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

– Proverb

added by anonymous
4 years ago

Being an OEM is like being a peasant counting on a good year of rain. Why shouldn't we build our own brands, lower the price a bit and offer products that have the same quality as foreign brands.

– Terry Wu

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every ‘superstar,’ every ‘supreme leader,’ every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

– Carl Sagan

added by Normando
5 years ago

It would be nice if he decided, once we are in power, to sell his Incauca farm to the government so we can give it to peasant farmers.

– Gustavo Petro

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Before World War Two speaking in foreign languages was commonplace. You spoke in a different language with a Hungarian horse trader, a Jewish innkeeper or a Ukrainian peasant, that changed radically after the war.

– Konstanty Gebert

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's easier for me in a way to have all the you know, when I put the wig on and I'm in these peasant clothes and, thank God, no high heels … and the accent, and there's just such a different it's just exciting. it’s a little different in that we have acting scenes together. We never had that in ‘Sons,’.

– Katey Sagal

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

– John Updike

added by anonymous
10 years ago

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.

– John Berger

added by anonymous
10 years ago

For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings an edge in the balance of power for a time, a chance to hire more mercenary soldiers for their wars. They ended up losing those wars anyway, and all that was left was a deadly inflation, a starving population, the rich richer, the poor poorer, and a ruined peasant class.

– Hans Konig

added by anonymous
13 years ago

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

– Plato

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value.

– Abbe Guillaume Raynal

added by anonymous
13 years ago

They eat the dainty food of gamous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.

– Luigi Barzini

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Fr., I want there to be no peasant in my realm so poor that he will not have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.

– King Henry IV of France

added by anonymous
14 years ago

If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself.

– Assyrian Proverb

added by anonymous
14 years ago

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

– Johann von Goethe

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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