
“My country is the Portuguese language.”
Fernando Pessoa (as Bernardo Soares), in The Book of Disquiet (1982)
Misattributed
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Da Gama, Cary Grant, and the Election of 1934 (2005)
“My country is the Portuguese language.”
Fernando Pessoa (as Bernardo Soares), in The Book of Disquiet (1982)
Misattributed
Original: (pt) Isso fez do português este tipo que nós somos. Nós não temos raça nenhuma. Não se pode falar na raça portuguesa. Se houvesse uma raça, nós éramos uma anti-raça. Feita com gente vinda de toda a parte ao longo de milhões de anos.
Source: "História Essencial de Portugal", episode 1
“Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.”
“What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.”
“I have a parrot. It can say 'sovereignty to all the people' in Portuguese.”
Noam Chomsky: Coronavirus - What is at stake? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-N3In2rLI4 | Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25) Mar 28, 2020
Quotes 2010s, 2020, Coronavirus - What is at stake?
As quoted http://www.awakin.org/read/view.php?tid=189 in Mother Teresa's Reaching Out In Love - Stories told by Mother Teresa http://books.google.de/books?hl=de&id=tdyw409qGgQC&q=ocean#search_anchor, Compiled and Edited by Edward Le Joly and Jaya Chaliha, Barnes & Noble, 2002, p. 122
2000s
"Communism and New Economic Policy",(April 1921)
1920s
“All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.”