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Jose Mujica
Uruguayan
Statesman
Born:
May 20
,
1935
About
Live
People
Politics
World
You
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Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.
Jose Mujica
Work
People
Try
Those
More
Only
More And More
Lifestyle
Always
Expensive
Want
Poor
Poor People
Who
Keep
The world will always need revolution. That doesn't mean shooting and violence. A revolution is when you change your thinking. Confucianism and Christianity were both revolutionary.
Jose Mujica
You
Change
World
Will
Revolution
Thinking
Christianity
Both
Always
Were
Revolutionary
Shooting
Mean
Confucianism
Your
Violence
Need
If you don't have many possessions, then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself.
Jose Mujica
Life
Work
Time
You
Yourself
Possessions
All Your Life
More
Like
Sustain
Them
Then
Your
Many
Therefore
Slave
Need
If we lived within our means - by being prudent - the 7 billion people in the world could have everything they needed. Global politics should be moving in that direction. But we think as people and countries, not as a species.
Jose Mujica
Politics
People
World
Think
Our
Everything
Direction
Could
Countries
Global
Within
Prudent
Being
Moving
Should
Means
Billion
Lived
Species
Needed
I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor.
Jose Mujica
President
Feel
Poor
Poorest
There are those who believe that power is up above, and they don't notice that it's actually in the hearts of the great masses.
Jose Mujica
Great
Power
Believe
Those
Great Masses
Above
Masses
Up
Hearts
Notice
Who
Actually
I give myself the luxury of saying what I want.
Jose Mujica
Saying
Myself
Luxury
Give
Want
No addiction is good.
Jose Mujica
Good
Addiction
When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.
Jose Mujica
You
Solitude
Living
Becomes
Lot
Any
Companion
Thing
Living Thing
I'll shout it if they want: Down with isms! Up with a Left that is capable of thinking outside the box! In other words, I am more than completely cured of simplifications, of dividing the world into good and evil, of thinking in black and white. I have repented!
Jose Mujica
Good
Good And Evil
Words
World
Evil
Black
Black And White
White
Down
Thinking
Other
More
Dividing
Outside
Box
Am
Left
Up
Cured
Than
Want
In Other Words
Capable
Shout
I don't want to be an apologist for poverty, but I can't stand waste, useless spending, wasted energy and having to live squandering stuff.
Jose Mujica
Poverty
Energy
Live
Spending
Having
Stuff
Squandering
Want
Stand
Useless
Waste
Wasted
Fascism in Uruguay did not begin just with the military coup of 1973, but years before, even when there was still a government with a constitution and parliament.
Jose Mujica
Government
Constitution
Before
Military
Parliament
Coup
Still
Years
Begin
Did
Just
Fascism
Even
I'm not the apocalypse nor the promised land.
Jose Mujica
Promised
Promised Land
Nor
Land
Apocalypse
I know prisons from the inside.
Jose Mujica
Inside
Know
Prisons
My years in jail were a bit like a workshop for my - that actually forged my way of thinking and my values.
Jose Mujica
Values
Thinking
Way
Bit
Like
Were
Years
Forged
Jail
Workshop
Actually
A lot of people like a lot of money. They shouldn't go into politics.
Jose Mujica
Politics
People
Money
Like
Go
Lot
There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.
Jose Mujica
Failure
You
People
Experiment
Say
Condemns
Who
Any North American state is more important than Uruguay, in dimensions, in its economic force.
Jose Mujica
Important
State
Dimensions
More
Economic
Force
Than
North
North American
American
Any
The world cries out for global rules that respect the achievements of science.
Jose Mujica
Respect
Science
World
Cries
Rules
Out
Global
Achievements
If the inmates of Guantanamo want to make their nests in Uruguay, they can do it.
Jose Mujica
Make
Want
Guantanamo
If I worried about pollsters, I wouldn't be president.
Jose Mujica
President
Worried
About
The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.
Jose Mujica
People
Were
Spain
Poorest
Richest
We can't avoid that our daily and intimate manner of speaking is sometimes rough.
Jose Mujica
Daily
Sometimes
Our
Intimate
Manner
Speaking
Avoid
Rough
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