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The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!

It is easy to slip into self-absorption and it is equally fatal. When one becomes absorbed in himself, in his health, in his personal problems, or in the small details of daily living, he is, at the same time, losing interest in other people; worse, he is losing his ties to life. From that it is an easy step to losing interest in the world and in life itself. That is the beginning of death.

To be born in that city is useful for only one thing: to have always known, almost instinctively, what today, with endless fine distinctions, everyone is beginning to claim: that the dream of unlimited progress is in reality a nightmare of savagery and death.

He said we lived in a provincial country, where every occasion was an opportunity for complaining, but meanwhile no one rolled up his sleeves and reorganized things, trying to make them function.

We gazed at the constellations, praising the portentous architecture of the sky with trite formulas.

Such tensions without sense push us to formulate questions of meaning.

Depressed I went out into the heat that lay on the neighborhood like a hand swollen with fever in that season, and made my way to the library.

a bitter sarcasm alternated with a quiet cult of memory.

Después le tendí el libro a Lila, le dije: ¿Quieres verlo? Ella respondió que no con la cabeza y una mueca displicente.

if social democracy wins, it will be capital that triumphs through the centuries and the working class will fall victim to enforced consumerism.)

But what my less easily verbalized emotions recorded under the word Caserta was a spinning nausea, vertigo, and a lack of air.

Yes, it was enough to pull one thread to go on playing with the mysterious figure of my mother, now enriching it, now humiliating it.

The hand which scoops up the water is the first vessel. The fingers of both hands intertwined are the first basket. [p. 217]

ended up having dinner with the Nagys. Everything was covered in sour cream.

The sky looked like a loaf of glowing grayish laundry that someone had washed with a red shirt.

One must always be thinking," Isabel told Ralph. "I am not sure it's not a greater happiness to be powerless." And Ralph replied: "For weak people I have no doubt it's a greater happiness.'' It was a confirmation of my own idea of strength—of my determination to be strong.

My mother said that that had been wrong. She said that children were people, whose dignity and privacy were worthy of respect. She was the only person I had ever met or heard of who thought or said anything like that.

Most government majors belonged to a social type known as "gov jocks.

English fondness for France is normally a sort of neutron love: take away the people and leave the buildings standing.

I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world, because if you have power you use it to meet the needs of you and your community.

There is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.

A stochastic process is about the results of convolving probabilities-which is just what management is about, as well.

He despised music and considered it solely as an intrusion! For that matter the whole Freud family was very unmusical.

But no other composer, to my mind, has a greater capacity to dispel irritation or banish a mood of depression. There