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Puerto Rico is Spanish American in its past, Anglo-Saxon in its present, and, I trust, in the deepest sense Pan-American in its future

— Muna Lee Cultural Interchanges between the Americas (1929)

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Another's estimate has never the rich completeness of the sudden word from the inner self.

Science of course is the great international bond.

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It is poetry to express an entire philosophy in simple words

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Translators, again-the most abused and patient lot of folk on earth-are helpful in making us better acquainted; though we hope the time will soon come when citizens of the twenty-one republics will no longer need translators. There is no reason for our not speaking each other's language.

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