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Eduardo Galeano
“The theories of Milton Friedman gave him the Nobel Prize; they gave Chile General Pinochet.”
Eduardo Galeano

Augustine of Hippo
“For he who wore no chain was amazed at my slavery, and his amazement awoke the desire for experience, and from that he would have gone on to the experiment itself, and then perhaps he would have fallen into the very slavery that amazed him in me, since he was ready to enter into “a covenant with death, ...”
St. Augustine

William James
“In the end nothing less than the whole of everything can be the truth of anything at all”
William James

Eduardo Galeano
“The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.”
Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

Mary McCarthy
“Foreknowledge of the consequences of an act that is then performed generally argues the will to do it; if this occurs repeatedly, and the doer continues to protest that he did not will the consequences, this suggests an extreme and dangerous disassociation of the personality.”
Mary McCarthy

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