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“You can call me Anna,” she said, sternly. “Is that your real name?” “Of course not.” “Then I'll call you Louise instead. I already know somebody named Anna. It's too confusing.”
“Even the best national currency of the postwar period, the German mark, lost 71 percent of its value from January 1, 1949, through the end of June 1995. In the same period, the U.S. dollar lost 84 percent of its value.9 This inflation had the same effect as a tax on all who hold the currency.”
― The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
― The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
“In the Information Society, no one who is truly able will be detained by the ill-formed opinions of others. It will not matter what most of the people on earth might think of your race, your looks, your age, your sexual proclivities, or the way you wear your hair. In the cybereconomy, they will never see you. The ugly, the fat, the old, the disabled will vie with the young and beautiful on equal terms in utterly color-blind anonymity on the new frontiers of cyberspace.”
― The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
― The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
“Algún día, cuando hayan pasado los años y crecido mis hijos; cuando de nuevo esta casa recobre su silencio y los libros llenen todas sus paredes sin que nos digan nada; cuando no quedemos en el mundo más que tú y yo, entonces recordaremos con nostalgia este día hecho de casi nada. Este día que olvidaremos sin duda mañana mismo, porque no fue en absoluto extraordinario, sino parecido a un día como otro. Pero lleno de una dorada luz, de unos niños pequeños que gritan e interrumpen, de la ilusión de meter nuevos libros en casa, de las tareas corrientes como prepararles los baños o leerles un cuento. Lleno de ti y de mí, que nos pensamos aún llenos de tanta vida.”
― El gato encerrado
― El gato encerrado
“Desde que existe el mundo y los hombres se matan unos a otros, nunca un hombre, después de cometer un crimen contra un prójimo, ha dejado de tranquilizarse con esa misma idea. Es la idea de «le bien public», el bien de los demás hombres.”
― Guerra y Paz - Volumen 2
― Guerra y Paz - Volumen 2
“Since it has pleased God to endue us with some capacity of reason, to the end we may not, like brutes, be servilely subject and enslaved to the laws common to both, but that we should by judgment and a voluntary liberty apply ourselves to them, we ought, indeed, something to yield to the simple authority of nature, but not suffer ourselves to be tyrannically hurried away and transported by her; reason alone should have the conduct of our inclinations. I, for my part, have a strange disgust for those propensions that are started in us without the mediation and direction of the judgment.”
― Essays
― Essays
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