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1869–1935 Bolivia
Daniel Domingo Salamanca Urey (8 July 1869 – 17 July 1935) was a Bolivian lawyer and politician who served as the 33rd president of Bolivia from 1931 to 1934.
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The most talented man, as he has been told many times, does a hundred foolish things in his life.
Nothing is more ridiculous than a tyrant, whose fear is gradually losing itself.
It is inherent to the human condition to admire precisely what you do not understand.
What is not ephemeral in individual life, if life itself is fleeting like a dream.
Everyone is sensitive to pain: only the various kinds of misfortunes affect everyone differently and to varying degrees.
From the ruins of a collapsing cause, the dust of recriminations always rises.
In established interests are the most powerful force of resistance to good.
We don't have to complain about human selfishness: everyone cares about us, and even our enemies would like to correct our defects.
Our politics is a field from which morality is completely exiled.
The strongest will, never fully does what it wants. It does what the circumstances allow.
It is very easy to be a skilled man at the head of a powerful country. The difficult thing is to be one when representing a weak country.
He who does not change in this changing world, perishes. He who does not know how to transform with the times has to be eliminated by them.
From extreme old age, sanity is requested. It is like asking for strength from weakness.
Every time we experience a misfortune or a setback, we need to find a culprit. We accuse the wind if there is no other.
As night is coming and my strength is exhausted, with no hope of anything better, I have only to display the meager harvest that I have accidentally picked.
The smallest evil that is inflicted on us seems to us a monstrous and horrible injustice. On the contrary, we are willing to consider the evils of others' light and to excuse and mitigate the injustices suffered by them.
In some grocery stores there is an expressive sign that says: Today I don't trust, tomorrow I do. I have some desire to compare that sign the promises of happiness that life gives us.
In general, past things come to be in the memory not as they were, but as we would like or how we wanted them to have been.
We must defend the Chaco because it is ours, and it is the heritage that our elders left us; not for us, men ephemeral that we will die tomorrow, if not for our children, for our grandchildren, for the old Bolivia.
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