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| c2a4855 | Es mas indefenso el hombre de armas que es sorprendido sin su cota de malla que el insignificante hombre de paz que, por no haberla tenido nunca, tampoco siente nunca su carencia. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| e55e888 | Seria uno tan duro con los seres humanos -decia Bruno- si se supiese de verdad que algun dia se han de morir y que nada de lo que se les dijo se podra ya rectificar? | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| ca77323 | Una de las tragicas precariedades del espiritu, pero tambien una de sus sutilezas mas profundas, es su imposibilidad de ser sino mediante la carne. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| d685d29 | Naravno da te volim, tikvane jedan. Nanela bih ti bol bas zato sto te volim. Zar ne shvatas? Covek ne nanosi zlo onima prema kojima je ravnodusan. Ali voleti, Martine, to je jako sirok pojam... | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| d1994d4 | Kao deca, nadamo se velikoj sreci, nekoj golemoj i apsolutnoj sreci. I u iscekivanju da se to desi, mi pustamo da mimo nas prolaze male srece, jedine koje postoje. Ne umemo ni da ih cenimo. To je kao... Ipak, nije dovrsio misao. Ubrzo nastavi: - Zamislite nekog prosjaka koji uz put odbija milostinju, jer je naucio da negde postoji neko basnoslovno blago. Neko nepostojece blago. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| 0b6c553 | Ljubav, to je jedna osoba koja pati i druga osoba koja se grdno dosaduje. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| efdfeb4 | Uostalom, zar nismo svi u nekoj vrsti rata? Nisam li ja deo neke male cete? I zar Martin nije, na izvestan nacin, neko nad cijim snom bdim, ciju zebnju pokusavam da ublazim i ciju nadu odrzavam kao neki plamicak, dok svuda naokolo beni oluja? | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| c8f932b | Acostumbrate un poco a la oscuridad y podras bajar mejor | introspección oscuridad | Ernesto Sabato | |
| 53ee848 | Nikakvo apstraktno razmisljanje, makar se bavilo ljudskim problemima, ne moze da pruzi utehu coveku, ne moze da ublazi tugu ni muku konkretnog stvorenja od krvi i mesa, stvorenja cije oci groznicavo gledaju (prema cemu ili prema kome?), stvorenja koje samo nada odrzava u zivotu. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| 98648e9 | We find the same rituals, if with slightly different names: the giving of alms (the mntnae), the giving of a Eucharistic oblation (the prosphora), the celebration of a "love feast" (the agape: the Greek and Coptic equivalent of the refrigerium), and the "making of memory" (rmeue) on behalf of "the one who comes out from the body."51" | Peter R.L. Brown | ||
| 4289817 | Believe your attractions, listen to your intuitions, and feel the power of your will. | Garry Fitchett | ||
| 7c60267 | Jer, srecom (mislio je), covek nije sazdan samo od beznada nego i od vere ili nade, ne samo od smrti nego i od zelje za zivotom, ne samo od usamljenosti nego i od trenutka zajednistva i ljubavi. Ukoliko bi prevladalo beznade, svi bismo se prepustili smrti ili bismo se ubili, a to se ipak ne desava. Po njegovom misljenju, to pokazuje koliko je razum malo vazan, jer nije razumno gajiti nadu u svetu u kome zivimo. Nas razum, nas um nam nepreki.. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| 1938e7d | Svet ne spasavaju ideje, intelekt ni razum nego nesto sasvim drugo: one nerazumne covekove nade, njegovo upinjanje da prezivi, njegova zelja da dise dokle god moze, njegovo malo, tvrdoglavo i smesno svakodnevno junastvo naspram zle kobi. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| f4de3fe | On je "morao" da zna, ponavljao je u sebi Bruno s nekom ironicnom setom. Naravno da je "znao". Ali, koliko je znao? Kakvo je to znanje bilo? Konacno, sta mi uopste znamo o osnovnoj taji ljudskih bica? Pa i onih koji su nam najblizi?" | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| 1e22fe9 | Da bismo upoznali jednu stvarnost, mi smo se otudili od druge. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| 78ed75d | Keep your end of the yard clean and leave the justice to the Lord. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| a27fb46 | La experiencia me ha demostrado que lo que a mi me parece claro y evidente casi nunca lo es para el resto de mis semejantes. Estoy tan quemado que ahora vacilo mil veces antes de ponerme a justificar o a explicar una actitud mia y, casi siempre, termino por encerrarme en mi mismo y no abrir la boca." "Experience has taught me that what seems clear and evident for me almost never is for the rest of my fellow men. I am so burned that I now us.. | lotsofus me | Ernesto Sabato | |
| f80f9d2 | Recenica: "Vreme koje je proslo bilo je bolje" ne znaci da se ranije dogadalo manje zla, nego da - srecom - ljudi to zaboravljaju." | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| bbefe7a | Experience has taught me that what seems clear and evident for me almost never is for the rest of my fellow men. I am so burned that I now usually hesitate before trying to explain or justify one of my attitudes, and I almost always end up shutting myself off and not saying anything. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| 85cc19e | Muchas veces me ha pasado eso: luchar insensatamente contra un obstaculo que me impide hacer algo que juzgo necesario o conveniente, aceptar con rabia la derrota y finalmente, un tiempo despues, comprobar que el destino tenia razon. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| 7a3e954 | A great scholar of Gaul and of the "barbarian" side of the Rhine frontier - John Drinkwater - has recently provided a cogent answer. He argues that emperor, military, and civilian populations alike needed the idea of a "barbarian threat" to justify their own existence. The threat of invasion justified high rates of taxation. It justified the splendid palaces and cities ringed with high walls which overlooked the Rhine and the Danube, from t.. | Peter R.L. Brown | ||
| eede043 | of the many Christianities of this time. For the entire period from 200 to 1000, Christianity remained predominantly a religion of Asia and of northern Africa. Though well established in parts of the western Mediterranean (and not least in large cities such as Rome and Carthage) Christianity spread slowly throughout the non-Mediterranean West. What we now call a distinctively "European" Christianity was unthinkable in the year 500 A.D. Even.. | Peter R.L. Brown | ||
| e920fd8 | This view of Tertullian should not be confused with the tradition of "Christian mortalism" that has survived in some circles up to today. In "Christian mortalism," the soul of the dead person is believed to be unconscious--as good as dead--until awakened again at the Resurrection and the Last Judgment. For Tertullian, the souls of the departed never lapsed into total unconsciousness. Rather, they lived a suspended, interim existence, waitin.. | Peter R.L. Brown | ||
| ccec224 | Without the tenacity of its gnarled, pre-Christian roots, modern Europe would have lacked the imaginative and intellectual "roughage" provided by an unresolved tension between the sacred and the profane. A Europe which grew only from "Christian roots" would have been a sadly anemic Europe." | Peter R.L. Brown | ||
| c1d5513 | Bardaisan's treatise was appropriately named The Book of the Laws of Countries. | Peter R.L. Brown | ||
| 03330eb | Before your eyes human bodies ... battered with a scourge of lead or broken with cudgels or torn apart with claws or branded in the flames ... and you, the upholder of riches and of the sale of offices, recline without a care, resting on thick carpets piled high beneath you ... and entertain your guests with the tale of the man whom you have savagely tortured ... and lest anyone present ... be struck with horror at the story, you go on to c.. | Peter R.L. Brown | ||
| 6275b84 | The friction point of Christian eschatology, and of Christian pastoral care, was the fate of the non valdes--of the non valde mali and the non valde boni: the "not altogether bad" and the "not altogether good." Such persons could be helped by the prayers and offerings of the living, provided that they had "qualified" for such help in this life, by living reasonably good lives:" | Peter R.L. Brown | ||
| d33e11e | Thus, more than ever before, society was divided into two classes: those who became steadily poorer and more destitute, and those who built up their prosperity on the spoils of the ruined Empire--real drones, who lived on the toil and travail of other classes. To | Peter R.L. Brown | ||
| f4d065b | Pigpen and Dust have already told me, multiple times, that lots of brothers are ready and willing to buy me as many beers as I can drink tonight, tomorrow night, forever. | pigpen | Katie McGarry | |
| a2bbce7 | The idea of government separate from religion was floating around during the Enlightenment. John Locke, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Denis Diderot, and the greats of the day discussed it. But while other ideas in political science had real-world antecedents on which the founders could rely, there was no example of a truly secular government. No other nation had sought to protect the ability of its citizens to think freely by separating the govern.. | Andrew L Seidel | ||
| 08ce0de | Ashley's high-pitched voice cut through the silence as if she were dispensing juicy country-club gossip. Both my father and I turned our heads to look at the blond bimbo. I willed her to continue while my father, I'm sure, willed her to shut up. God listened to me for once. Ashley went on, And once again, welcome to the Ashley show, sponsored by Ashley and my father's money. | continue echo father shut-up willed | Katie McGarry | |
| d328605 | Every day proves to me more and more that this American world was not made for me. | Alexander Hamilton | ||
| 441a83e | The tapes are the real man--mean, vindictive, panicky, striking first in anticipation of being struck, trying to lift his own friable self-esteem by shoving others down. Murray Kempton said he wanted to leave no fingerprints, but he went about it in such a way as to leave his fingerprints all over his story. Nixon's real tragedy is that he never had the stature to be a tragic hero. He is the stuff of sad (almost heartbreaking) comedy. | Garry Wills | ||
| e0b3316 | You are endowed with a peculiar gift, a wild card really, capable of thumping your history, while creating your future - called Free Will. | Garry Fitchett | ||
| c7b66fe | interlocutor--a | Garry Wills | ||
| d613510 | Learning to listen to your 'will' and what it loves - and then translating what you hear into a practical formula for action - is the only path to authenticity. | Garry Fitchett | ||
| e181434 | Americans are driven by many forces, and chief among those forces--and thus a formative element in the country's soul--is the "pursuit of happiness" of which Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence. When he composed those words in his rented second-floor quarters at Seventh and Market in Philadelphia in late June, 1776, Jefferson was not thinking about happiness in only the sense of good cheer. He and his colleagues were contempl.. | Jon Meacham | ||
| 3c61a20 | Like many Russians, I was troubled by the little-known Putin's KGB background and his sudden rise to power by overseeing the brutal 1999 war to pacify the Russian region of Chechnya. But along with my countrymen, at the start I was grudgingly willing to give Putin a chance. Yeltsin had badly tarnished his democratic credentials during his 1996 reelection by using the powers of the presidency to influence the outcome, and I confess that I wa.. | Garry Kasparov | ||
| f2fa9d7 | Garry Wills's classic 1978 book on the Declaration, Inventing America, put it well: "When Jefferson spoke of pursuing happiness," Wills wrote, "he had nothing vague or private in mind. He meant public happiness which is measurable; which is, indeed, the test and justification of any government." | Jon Meacham | ||
| c6bb172 | Talmud, the Halakha, the Qur'an, the Bible, the (Sikh) Granth Sahib--as "true and accurate in all particulars."4 How could a dying religious attitude, scheduled for elimination by the end of the twentieth century--already, as it were, being measured for its coffin--dance away from the dirge with renewed vitality? More pointedly, how could this escape" | Garry Wills | ||
| 0d8f109 | Time is the cosmic fabric upon which everyone's life story is woven. | Garry Fitchett | ||
| e381073 | Being in tune to one's Will and working accordingly shears the malaise of inauthenticity. | Garry Fitchett | ||
| 1c8a432 | Tertullian argued that the Bible is often difficult to interpret. Obscure passages must be interpreted by those which are plain. | Henry Chadwick | ||
| 584c5d8 | Henry Chadwick's excellent The Early Church, first published in the 1960s. | Charles Freeman |