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| 7ffb83d | Eramos brutalmente ambiciosos. Aspiravamos ao fracasso. Mas nao a um fracasso qualquer, sem que nem pra que: aspiravamos a um fracasso total, radical e absoluto. Era nosso modo de aspirar ao sucesso. | Javier Cercas | ||
| b45ab2e | Doctor, continuad disfrutando de vuestra gloria, que bien merecido lo teneis. --La gloria me llego cuando dejo de interesarme. Y dejo de hacerlo cuando vi la muerte de cerca, poco despues de dejaros en el muelle del puerto de Manila... A punto de irnos a pique, tuve la revelacion deslumbrante de que necesitaba estar con vos, y si habia gloria que compartir, compartirla con vos. Isabel guardo unos segundos de silencio, bajo la cabeza, y cuan.. | Javier Moro | ||
| befb4d9 | los hombres no piden perdon: hacen lo que hacen y dicen lo que dicen, y luego se aguantan. | Javier Cercas | ||
| 80a10d8 | Cuando estallo el caso Marco, mucha gente dedujo que, dado que Marco habia mentido sobre su estancia en el campo de Flossenburg, habia mentido sobre todo lo demas. Es una deduccion erronea, que delata una ignorancia espectacular sobre la naturaleza de las buenas mentiras y los buenos mentirosos: los buenos mentirosos no solo trafican con mentiras, sino tambien con verdades, y las grandes mentiras se fabrican con pequenas verdades; | Javier Cercas | ||
| 80280b7 | Se ha argumentado a menudo que teologos, moralistas, comisarios politicos e intolerantes y fanaticos de todos los signos han recelado siempre de la novela, y siguen haciendolo, por la misma razon por la que todas las dictaduras y sistemas totalitarios han procurado prohibirla o mantenerla bajo control: porque no hay novela digna de tal nombre que no entrane un gesto de insumision, una forma de rebeldia o protesta o desobediencia, una impugn.. | Javier Cercas | ||
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No hace mucho, alguien que te aprecia me dijo lo siguiente: < |
Javier Cercas | ||
| 49e1e0c | Me acostaba llorando, me despertaba llorando y me pasaba el dia escondiendome de la gente, para poder llorar. | Javier Cercas | ||
| 41c61ee | Como una pelicula de los hermanos Marx, solo que con muertos. Aquello fue un desbarajuste fabuloso. --Soplo un poco el te, bebio un sorbo y volvio a dejar la taza sobre el plato--. Mira, te voy a decir la verdad. Durante anos me cague cada vez que pude en Allende, pensaba que la culpa de todo era suya, por no entregarnos las armas. Ahora me cago en mi por haber dicho eso de Allende. Joder, el cabron pensaba en nosotros como si fueramos sus .. | Javier Cercas | ||
| 132ea52 | Crei que le importaba mucho la verdad. - Y me importa, pero una virtud llevada al extremo es un vicio. Si uno no entiende que hay cosas mas importantes que la verdad no entiende lo importante que es la verdad. | Javier Cercas | ||
| 8f6d4e1 | The real tragedy was not that Speer chose to side with the Nazis, but that he did not care which side he was on, as long as he benefited from it. | Geetanjali Mukherjee | ||
| b3f8cb9 | Hitler's architect and later Minister of Armaments, Albert Speer. Speer had been imprisoned for his role in the use of slave labor during the war, but though he was found guilty for a number of crimes, and served nineteen years in prison, upon his release which was supported by such people as French president Charles DeGaulle and other high-ranking politicians, he was considered in many ways a "good German". He had admitted his guilt at th.. | Leonard Cooper | ||
| e0b349e | Smith & Wesson 9mm--satin finished, stainless steel and loaded with eight rounds of XTPs. | Michael Connelly | ||
| dc87c0e | balding man with a drooping | Michael Connelly | ||
| 58cc520 | Do not discuss God and his reason, does not discuss the motherland and the nation. | António de Oliveira Salazar | ||
| ee6b43f | All for the nation, nothing against the nation. | António de Oliveira Salazar | ||
| 16c72c0 | Millions of believers think they are "spiritual" because of what they don't do--or because of the leader they follow--or because of the group they belong to. The Lord shows us in Galatians how wrong we are--and how right we can be if only we would let the Holy Spirit take over." | Warren W. Wiersbe | ||
| 581a16b | I have the grace of providence to be poor. | António de Oliveira Salazar | ||
| 69b0d10 | We do not buy superstars. We make them. | Arsène Wenger | ||
| 581af38 | Who is not patriotic can not be considered Portuguese. | António de Oliveira Salazar | ||
| 5d57a30 | People who live for things are never really happy, because they must constantly protect their treasures and worry lest they lose their value. | Warren W. Wiersbe | ||
| 293b987 | State is the nation socially organized. | António de Oliveira Salazar | ||
| 3acd9da | we must be careful what we do with this gospel, for it is not the invention of men, but the very truth of God. | Warren W. Wiersbe | ||
| ccf8022 | Definitely, decisively, the Nation, for us...and even for them. | António de Oliveira Salazar | ||
| e6724b2 | The day I leave the power, inside my pockets will only be dust. | António de Oliveira Salazar | ||
| b196e0f | Those who can, must obey. | António de Oliveira Salazar | ||
| a5f482a | been set here. The Heart of Mid-Lothian by Sir Walter Scott might satisfy those historians among you. For contemporary novels, you are spoiled for choice. The gritty Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, 44 Scotland Street by Andrew McColl Smith, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark or one of my favourites One Good Turn Deserves Another by Kate Atkinson and featuring her ex-detective Jackson Brodie. | Dee Maldon | ||
| f64161b | The difference between spiritual fruit and human religious activity is that the fruit brings glory to Jesus Christ. Whenever we do anything in our own strength, we have a tendency to boast about it. True spiritual fruit is so beautiful and wonderful that no human can claim credit for it; the glory must go to God alone. | Warren W. Wiersbe | ||
| 25142ff | Olin Foundation made a key $25,000 investment of its own in an unknown writer named Charles Murray, funding a grant at the Manhattan Institute that would support a book he was writing that attacked liberal welfare policies. The backstory to Losing Ground, Murray's book, was a primer on the growing and interlocking influence of conservative nonprofits. | Jane Mayer | ||
| 6de2968 | A variant of the NIT puts it within our power to end poverty, provide for comfortable retirement and medical care for everyone, and--as a bonus that is probably more important than any of the immediate effects--revitalize American civil society. | Charles Murray | ||
| 369f5a8 | there's a lot to like about day-to-day life in the advanced welfare states of western Europe. They are great places to visit. But the view of life that has taken root in those same countries is problematic. It seems to go something like this: The purpose of life is to while away the time between birth and death as pleasantly as possible, and the purpose of government is to make it as easy as possible to while away the time as pleasantly as .. | Charles Murray | ||
| db7dcf1 | Burlington, Vermont, is an example of a certain kind of small city that David Brooks calls "Latte Towns," enclaves of affluent and well-educated people, sometimes in scenic locales such as Santa Fe or Aspen and sometimes in university towns such as Ann Arbor, Berkeley, or Chapel Hill. Of Burlington, Brooks writes: Burlington boasts a phenomenally busy public square. There are kite festivals and yoga festivals and eating festivals. There are.. | Charles Murray | ||
| a998db8 | Traditions decay when the reality facing the new generation changes. The habit of thrift decays if there is no penalty for not saving. The work ethic decays if there is no penalty for not working. Neighborliness | Charles Murray | ||
| f06bc95 | During the second half of the twentieth century, the welfare state confronted accelerating increases in the number of people who were not just poor, but who behaved in destructive ways that ensured they would remain poor, sometimes living off their fellow citizens, sometimes preying on them. As their numbers grew, they acquired a new name: the underclass. The | Charles Murray | ||
| 3b8a20b | The libertarian solution is to prevent the government from redistributing money in the first place. Imagine for a moment that the $2 trillion that the US government spends on transfer payments were left instead in the hands of the people who started with it. If I could wave a magic wand, that would be my solution. It is a case I have made elsewhere.2 Leave the wealth where it originates, and watch how its many uses, individual and collabora.. | Charles Murray | ||
| 294b296 | People are unequal in the abilities that lead to economic success in life. To the extent that inequality of wealth is grounded in the way people freely choose to conduct their lives, I do not find it troubling. People | Charles Murray | ||
| 43a0b9a | Some people pursue happiness in ways that tend to be accompanied by large incomes, others in ways that tend to be accompanied by lower incomes. In a free society, these choices are made voluntarily, with psychic rewards balanced against monetary rewards. Income inequality is accordingly large. So what? | Charles Murray | ||
| 1fa9369 | Inequality of wealth grounded in unequal abilities is different. For most of us, the luck of the draw cuts several ways: one person is not handsome, but is smart; another is not as smart, but is industrious; and still another is not as industrious, but is charming. This kind of inequality of human capital is enriching, making life more interesting for everyone. But some portion of the population gets the short end of the stick on several di.. | Charles Murray | ||
| 2c9de43 | The argument starts by accepting that the American government will continue to spend a huge amount of money on income transfers. It then contends that we should take all of that money and give it back to the American people in cash grants. The | Charles Murray | ||
| 9952074 | Henceforth, federal, state, and local governments shall make no law nor establish any program that transfers general tax revenues to some citizens and not to others, whether those transfers consist of money or in-kind benefits. All programs currently providing such benefits are to be terminated. The funds formerly allocated to them are to be used instead to provide every citizen with a Universal Basic Income beginning at age twenty-one and .. | Charles Murray | ||
| 942033e | The goal of an end to poverty is so noble that governments have successfully used the end to justify the means. The means have been high taxation of the productive members of society and arrays of bureaucracies that increasingly regulate the lives of us all. 1 | Charles Murray | ||
| d9d1d51 | He is certainly not a good citizen who does not wish to promote, by every means in his power, the welfare of the whole society of his fellow citizens." That is Adam Smith talking, the apostle of laissez-faire." | Charles Murray | ||
| e2738ce | God's call to real worship, to an experience of transformation, is a call to dangerous and costly Christian living. | Warren W. Wiersbe | ||
| bc4bace | The entry of government into social insurance and then into a broader range of social interventions has caused incalculable human suffering. It has not produced a society in which fewer people are dependent than would otherwise have been the case. The welfare state has artificially, needlessly created a large dependent class. At the bottom is the underclass, stripped of dignity and autonomy, producing new generations socialized to their par.. | Charles Murray | ||
| e88ee22 | I have been drawn to Milton Friedman's argument for a negative income tax (NIT) that entirely replaces the existing system of income transfers and social services. The quid pro quo would be that the government withdraw altogether from every other form of interference in the organization of social life. Under such a plan the Department of Health and Human Services would become a check-writing office, and the social service agencies, bureaus,.. | Charles Murray |