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Credit: Corey Bond
Someone born in Brazil is an American. Anyone born on the western hemisphere is an American. American is not a nationality.

Portal:Brazil/Selected quote/2

 
Credit: Thirdship
Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.

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Credit: Carlos Almendarez
Someday I'd like to do some real traveling. I'm obsessed with Brazil and I've always had this dream of backpacking through South America.

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I want to go back to Brazil, get married, have lots of kids, and just be a couch potato.

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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuelan Haiti and Cuba.

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In Brazil every kid starts playing street football very early. It's in our blood.

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Here I can work and make money. In Brazil all I would do is study.

Portal:Brazil/Selected quote/8

 
Credit: Rockface
One day, someone will end a football game scoring more than Brazil. This MIGHT be the time that they lose!

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Brazil is bigger than Europe, wilder than Africa, and weirder than Baffin Land.

Portal:Brazil/Selected quote/10

 
Credit: Thomas de Leu
What we are told of the inhabitants of Brazil, that they never die but of old age, is attributed to the tranquility and serenity of their climate; I rather attribute it to the tranquility and serenity of their souls, [...] Those people spend their lives in an admirable simplicity and ignorance, without letters, without law, without king, without any manner of religion.

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Banks' beer. There's nothing like it! To Brazil. And to Barbados justice.

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Brazil, i’ve never beheld such a paradise. The people are enchanting and—a mercy on this earth of ours—this is the only place where there isn’t any race question.

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Credit: Gordon Flood
Brazil - they're so good it's like they are running round the pitch playing with themselves.

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Brazil has rediscovered itself, and this rediscovery is being expressed in its people's enthusiasm and their desire to mobilize to face the huge problems that lie ahead of us.

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Credit: Daniel Mundy
This part of Brazil offered the curious spectacle of a great evil, which has been long suffered to exist and is now advancing, gradually yet surely, to that state which must entail inevitable destruction on the existing Government of the country.

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I'm like Sergeant Schultz, I know nothing. We are trying to share ideas around the world. We don't just come up with a great idea in Brazil and ignore it in the rest of the world.

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Brazil is the country of rich banks and poor people.