#cuba

If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#cuba #get #go #man #married

Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#begin #bicycles #brothers #business #caves

The Cuban people have an amazingly strong and unbroken spirit. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#cuban #cuban people #people #spirit #strong

You know what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars. ↗

— Jamie Farr

#beautiful #beautiful city #cigars #city #cuban

Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent. ↗

— Alejo Carpentier

#always #continent #cuban #daily #european

I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba. ↗

— Fidel Castro

#castro #come #cuba #fidel #i

North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity. ↗

— Fidel Castro

#country #cuba #humanity #just #north

There was no testimony of conspiracy - Oswald's efforts to get in touch with the Soviets and with the Cuban Fair Play groups in New York were rebuffed, rebuffed at every step. ↗

— John Sherman Cooper

#cuban #efforts #every #every step #fair

Then I received support from the Government to compete for my country, and to represent Cuba in competition. ↗

— Alberto Juantorena

#competition #country #cuba #government #i

My main point in this regard was to compete for my country and my people and to receive the support of the entire Cuban society, to carry my flag in whatever competition I was in, the Olympic Games, Pan-American Games. ↗

— Alberto Juantorena

#compete #competition #country #cuban #entire