Alberto Assa Quotes

Alberto Assa was an Ottoman-born Colombian educator, translator and humanist of Sephardi descent.

✵ 6. May 1909 – 13. March 1996
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Alberto Assa Quotes

“Being born on the banks of the Bosphorus, I'm Byzantine by nationality, but French by education, German by training, Spanish by choice, Catalan at heart, fron the Canary Isles sometimes, and now becoming someone from Barranquilla by adoption and affection.”

Por haber nacido a orillas del Bósforo, soy bizantino de nación, pero francés de educación, alemán de formación, español de vocación, catalán de corazón, canario de añoración, y ahora barranquillero de adopción y afición.
Document from the University of Cartagena, p. 23 Found as PDF online http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=%22Por+haber+nacido+a+orillas+del+B%C3%B3sforo%2C+soy+bizantino%22&rlz=1R2SKPT_enGB432&oq=%22Por+haber+nacido+a+orillas+del+B%C3%B3sforo%2C+soy+bizantino%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_l=hp.3...1875.4703.0.5000.3.3.0.0.0.0.203.453.0j2j1.3.0...0.0.XWR5R0Td2Ow

“There will be no development without education, no progress without culture.”

No habrá desarrollo sin educación, ni progreso sin cultura.
Instituto Experimental del Atlántico "José Celestino Mutis" http://web.archive.org/web/20130421041951/http://www.colegio-iea.com/Glosas%20Experimentales_Nr1.pdf

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