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Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated like animals here. In the 1930s and 40s, they were sprayed with DDT to kill the vermin on their skin and in their hair whenever they came into the city.


Evo Morales


#always #bolivia #came #city #culturally

Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence of their country, and on the means of plunder, are wholly employed in the care of their horses and furniture.


Giraldus Cambrensis


#always #bent #care #country #defence

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.


Tacitus


#empire #make #peace #plunder #slaughter

I think in a sense this is a house that was built on a bad foundation. And the foundation was the Americans coming here and allowing the sacking, burning and plunder of Baghdad, for whatever reason.


Jon Lee Anderson


#bad #baghdad #built #burning #coming

Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.


Richard Francis Burton


#blunder #former #however #may #native

My casino experience is to someone else their experience with their employer, of how the company has elected to behave solely for greed, profits, and spite. But we shouldn’t give up hope in such situations. We have an obligation to separate the justices from the injustices. We should hold these corporate neighbors accountable for the wrongs that they commit. Someone has to.


John-Talmage Mathis


#casino #gambling #gaming #i-deal-to-plunder #louisiana

... there is no magical formula to beat the casino. None. Save your money. Save yourself from the cons of an author and the cons of the casino.


John-Talmage Mathis


#casino #gambling #gaming #i-deal-to-plunder #louisiana

This person sees not her own hand depositing the next dollar in a slot machine, but the hand of fate, or God. It’s her true conviction that there are forces at work for her to win a large jackpot— or at least to win back the money lost. After all, the only-for-show pictures of fruit had almost aligned with one another the last couple spins.


John-Talmage Mathis


#casino #gambling #gaming #god #i-deal-to-plunder

Every player eventually loses all their money.


John-Talmage Mathis


#casino #gambling #gaming #i-deal-to-plunder #louisiana

The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence.


John White Geary


#daily #filled #mere #occurrence #plunder