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| “ | A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting. | ” |
Peruvian-born American author Carlos Castaneda
| “ | It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around. | ” |
Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, and essayist Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa
| “ | You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes. | ” |
Peruvian painter Boris Vallejo
| “ | I am a free man. I feel as light as a feather. | ” |
Peruvian diplomat Javier Pérez de Cuéllar 1920–...
| “ | I would not change my native land, for rich Peru with all her gold. | ” |
English Nonconformist Isaac Watts 1674–1748
| “ | The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveller from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul’s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra. | ” |
English art historian, writer, antiquarian and politician Horace Walpole 1717–1797
| “ | If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor. | ” |
American colonel in the Revolutionary War William Prescott 1726–1795
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| “ | Conscience is the best judge that a righteous man has. | ” |
1st Protector of Peru José de San Martín 1778–1850
| “ | Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden. | ” |
Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, and essayist Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa in The War of the End of the World
| “ | All who have served the Revolution have plowed the sea. | ” |
South American revolutionary leader, liberator and dictator of Peru Simón Bolívar 1783–1830
| “ | I sincerely apologise to anyone I may have inadvertently offended | ” |
| “ | The bag was a purchase I made as a tourist in China. | ” |