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"interesante conocer como se colonizó nuestro vecino del norte con pura determinación y un poquito de suerte" — May 01, 2023 07:00PM
"interesante conocer como se colonizó nuestro vecino del norte con pura determinación y un poquito de suerte" — May 01, 2023 07:00PM
«¿Qué día es hoy?» Aureliano le contestó que era martes. «Eso mismo pensaba yo», dijo José Arcadio Buendía. «Pero de pronto me he dado cuenta de que sigue siendo lunes como ayer. Mira el cielo, mira las paredes, mira las begonias. También
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“«¿Qué día es hoy?» Aureliano le contestó que era martes. «Eso mismo pensaba yo», dijo José Arcadio Buendía. «Pero de pronto me he dado cuenta de que sigue siendo lunes como ayer. Mira el cielo, mira las paredes, mira las begonias. También hoy es lunes.»”
― Cien años de soledad
― Cien años de soledad
“Love is the fire that purifies and unifies intellect, will, and emotion, thereby making man one with himself, inasmuch as it makes him one in God’s eyes.”
― Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration
― Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration
“There has been more error propagated from the press in the last ten years than in a hundred years before,’ was the jaundiced judgement of John Adams, second president of the United States, and a frequent victim of press vituperation and ridicule.9”
― The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself
― The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself
“The last time I had brought him maps, for I had heard that nothing cures melancholy like looking at maps.”
― Flights
― Flights
“In December 1994, Yeltsin did what so many desperate leaders have done throughout history to hold on to power: he started a war. His national security chief, Oleg Lobov, had confided to a legislator, “We need a small, victorious war to raise the president’s ratings,” and the defense minister predicted that his army could defeat the forces in the breakaway republic of Chechnya in a matter of hours—a cakewalk. 59”
― The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
― The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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