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Phrase: The empire where / on which the sun never set
Meaning: The Kingdom of Castile, wrongly called Spain. Fortunately, this is no longer true, which is why 'set' is in the simple past tense.
Date: 18-09-2017
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Phrase: The language of Castile is Castillian. Full stop.
Meaning: The words Spain and Spanish to refer to the Kingdom of Castile and its language are incorrect and imperialist or colonialist. A Portuguese is Spanish, but not Castilian. Spanish means 'someone who lives in (or comes from) the Iberian peninsula'.
Sent by Miquel Molina
Date: 05-05-2017
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Phrase: Politics is for the moment; an equation is for eternity
Author: Albert Einstein
Date: 15-10-2016
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Phrase: Revolving doors
Meaning: This term refers to the fact that some politicians, once they leave office, begin working for the private sector. When they were in power, they benefited those private industries, and now those companies or corporations thank them this way. This ought to be illegal because it implies corruption.
Date: 17-04-2015
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Phrase: Neoliberal policies
Meaning: Fascist policies, that is, privatisation of state industries, financial markets above citizens, exorbitant taxes... In other words, the ones responsible for the current financial crisis.
Date: 25-02-2015
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Phrase: The people united will never be defeated
Date: 23-02-2015
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Phrase: A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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Phrase: A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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Phrase: Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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Phrase: An empty stomach is not a good political adviser
Author: Albert Einstein
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Phrase: Catalonia is not Castile, France or Italy
Meaning: Catalonia is a nation oppressed by Castile, France and Italy (L'Alguer)
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Phrase: Divide and conquer (or rule)
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Phrase: Everything for the people, but without the people
Meaning: The motto of Enlightened Despotism
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Phrase: If Europe means preserving the old empires and repression, then I just want to be Catalan
Author: Miquel Molina
Email: miquel@polseguera.com
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Phrase: Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind
Author: Albert Einstein
Meaning: If so, we wonder why the French and Castilian empires keep oppressing Catalonia and the Basque Country (Euskal Herria)
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Phrase: Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding
Author: Albert Einstein
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Phrase: Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies
Author: Groucho Marx
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Phrase: Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace
Author: Dalai Lama
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Phrase: You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war
Author: Albert Einstein
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