Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.

Jose Marti
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  3. The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person. - Chuck Palahniuk

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More Quotes By Jose Marti
  1. Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

  2. But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.

  3. An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

  4. There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

  5. The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.

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