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capitalismo internacional es el enemigo natural del nacionalismo.

Los zorros del desierto de Sechura aúllan como demonios cuando llega la noche; ¿sabes por qué?: para quebrar el silencio que los aterroriza»

En The Open Society and its Enemies, de donde proceden estas citas, Popper es meridianamente claro: «economic power may be nearly as dangerous as physical violence» («el poder económico puede ser casi tan peligroso como la violencia física»)[44].

Ortega y Gasset: «La claridad es la cortesía del filósofo».

you know the sisters were a bunch of Puseyites, all bells and smells

The Egyptian mode, for example, often led the squire to think the Egyptians must have had a very uncomfortable time of it.

but Mrs. Battersby had become that most unsympathetic of creatures, a self-ordained martyr

The girl was about as stealthy as a semi hauling a wide load.

a five-pointed star surrounded by a circle, a pentagram—the symbol for Satanists, if I remembered correctly from my college days.

If Bush's response on 9/11 was to start looking for somebody to bomb, Barack Obama sounded ready to launch some kind of global antipoverty campaign.

Mark reiterated how assiduously the FBI and his own department were now gathering evidence against him.

60 Minutes, the most watched and most respected news program on the tube.

Ali Shariati and others, who subscribed to the traditional leftist belief that capitalism was, at its core, the systematic exploitation of the weak

I think luxury is having a sense of personal continuity, of personal passion, in the midst of a busy public life, Julia postulates.

But grace and effort are not opposites. Grace and earning are opposites.

No one thought it curious they weren't trying to get the information from source for everyone in journalism understands the importance lies in what the competition is going to say, not in what happened.

Since you act as though God is dead, I wanted to join you in the mourning. The reply of Martin Luther's wife, in full funeral regalia, in trying to illustrate the folly of his depressed state.

God wants his glory to shine through men. God wants his Kingdom to be made visible through them.

Shame exists where there is sin, and so feeling ashamed, particularly when we sin, is natural and healthy. Therefore, shame is not bad, but unless the underlying sin that causes the shame is properly dealt with through the gospel, then the shame will remain, with devastating implications.

The ego's instinctive favoring of itself is eroded by a sense of the infinite

Well, what was I to do? For the well-bred gentleman there was clearly only one recourse. I fucked him.

He was an American, so it seemed only fair to shoot him.

a rhetorical question. It has a question mark at the end, but you are not meant to answer it because the person who is asking it already knows the answer.

And outside the window was like a map, except it was in 3 dimensions and it was life-size because it was the thing it was a map of.