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Josh is on page 230 of 1312 of Correspondance (1944-1959)
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Je me découvre des goûts aristocratiques et un penchant et un penchant funeste pour le mépris de « la masse ». C’est très laid ; c’est même, je crois, un signe certain d’une fêlure dans mon cœur à moi et j’en suis tout abasourdie. Mais que faire sinon attendre que Dieu me redonne et la pitié, et l’humilité et la générosité
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Correspondance (1944-1959)

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E por si muove decia Galileo cuando los dominicos le obligaban à declarar que la tierra no se movía; la misma frase se aplica al progreso humano.
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Josh is on page 215 of 1312 of Correspondance (1944-1959)
Putting this book on hold again for now
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Correspondance (1944-1959)

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Josh is on page 191 of 1312 of Correspondance (1944-1959)
My leisure read during a trip to Sydney in the next couple of weeks!
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Correspondance (1944-1959)

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Such brilliant prose.

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Para santificar la tarde la tarde del domingo se va generalmente a la gallera en Filipinas, como a los toros en España. La riña de gallos, pasión introducida en el país y explotada hace un siglo, es uno de los vicios del pueblo, comparable sólo al del opio entre los chinos; allí va a ser pobre a arriesgar lo que tienes, descoro de ganar dinero sin trabajar; …
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En medio de la confusión y del tumulto es cuando los libertinos se aprovechan del espanto y de la debilidad de la mujer; todos huyen y se salvan, nadie piensa en nadie, el grito no se oye, las mujeres se desmayan, se atropellan, caen; el terror y el miedo desoyen al pudor, y en medio de la noche… y ¡cuando se aman!
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At page 265: Rizal’s dialogues in the original Spanish are so funny. Exaggerated to today’s reader perhaps, but if I find it humorous, how much more his contemporaries!
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[hablan las mujeres del episodio interesante entre Ibarra y Padre Dámaso:]
“—La memoria de los padres es mas sagrada! … Ninguno, ni el Papa, y menos el Padre Dámaso puede profanar tan santa memoria!”

Pues como cambiaron tanto nuestros valores! Hoy tal sacrilegio se llama “mensaje simbólico”
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[El Padre Dámaso, no necesita más contexto que eso:]
“Ya se ve, desde que el Canal de Suez se ha abierto, la corrupción ha venido acá. Antes, cuando teníamos que doblar el Cabo, ni venían tantos perdidos, ni iban allá otros à perderse!”
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[Elias a Ibarra, quien le preguntó si creía en la casualidad:] Creer en la casualidades es como creer en milagros: ambas cosas suponen que Dios desconoce el porvenir. ¿Qué es casualidad? Un acontecimiento que nadie en absoluto ha previsto. ¿Qué es milagro? Una contradicción, un transtorno de las leyes naturales. …
Sep 21, 2024 06:49AM 1 comment
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[el Alcalde Mayor, despues que morió alguien en la incidente a la inauguración:]

¡alabado sea Dios! El muerto no es sacerdote, ni español!
Aug 11, 2024 12:18PM Add a comment
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Josh is on page 541 of 690 of Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
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The exercise of political and economic agency is an important end of human life itself, apart from the effects of that exercise.
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Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

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Josh is on page 538 of 690 of Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
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Decay occurs when incumbent political actors entrench themselves within a political system and block possibilities for institutional change.
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Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

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Josh is on page 513 of 690 of Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
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A high degree of autonomy is what permits innovation, experimentation, and risk taking in a bureaucracy.
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Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

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Josh is on page 445 of 690 of Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
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Karl Marx's Communist utopia did not materialize in the developed world because his global proletariat turned into a global middle class.
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Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

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Josh is on page 435 of 690 of Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
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Regimes that balance strong states with legal and democratic constraints on power have become a normative standard around the world.
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Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

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