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Cuando el saqueo es organizado por ley para ganancia de los que hacen la ley, todas las clases saqueadeas tratan de entrar de alguna manera – de forma pacífica o revolucionaria – en la elaboración de leyes.
Speaker: Fréderic BastiatPosted: 23 Dec 2008 at 10:11 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Sostenemos estas verdades como evidentes por sí mismas: que todos los hombres son creados iguales; que son dotados por su creador con ciertos derechos inalienables; que entre ellos están la vida, la libertad, y la persecución de la felicidad.
Speaker: Thomas JeffersonPosted: 19 Dec 2008 at 10:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
El gobierno existe para protegernos de los demás. Donde el gobierno ha ido más allá de sus límites es en decidir protegernos de nosotros mismos.
Speaker: Ronald ReaganPosted: 19 Dec 2008 at 10:57 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Se ha forzado al hombre a aceptar el masoquismo como ideal, bajo la amenaza de que el sadismo es la única alternativa. Este es el mayor fraude jamás perpetrado sobre la Humanidad. Este es el artificio por el cual la dependencia y el sufrimiento se han perpetuado como los fundamentos de la vida. La elección no es auto-sacrifico o dominación. La elección es independencia o dependencia. El código del creador o el código del que vive de prestado. Este es el asunto primordial, y se basa en la alternativa entre la vida y la muerte.
Speaker: Ayn RandPosted: 19 Dec 2008 at 10:55 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Speaker: Anne Dudley BradstreetPosted: 09 Dec 2008 at 8:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you have a question, ask. Better ask a question and reveal your ignorance for a few minutes than not ask and be ignorant for the rest of your life.
Speaker: Czer BergmanSource: http://www.salamon.net/ask.jpgPosted: 08 Dec 2008 at 3:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Space isn’t remote at all. It’s only an hour’s drive away if your car could go straight upwards.
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It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:24 PMComments: 1 -
It is often forgotten that (dictionaries) are artificial repositories, put together well after the languages they define. The roots of language are irrational and of a magical nature.
Speaker: Jorge Luis BorgesPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:23 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Thinking is the great enemy of perfection. The habit of profound reflection, I am compelled to say, is the most pernicious of all the habits formed by civilized man.
Speaker: Joseph ConradPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:22 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.
Speaker: Joseph JoubertPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:21 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We must play from the soul, not like trained birds.
Speaker: C.P.E. BachPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:21 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
Speaker: Sydney J. HarrisPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:20 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who believe themselves sinners; the sinners who believe themselves righteous.
Speaker: Blaise PascalPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:20 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Speaker: Thomas MannPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:20 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone.
Speaker: Bjarne Stroustrup, designer of C++Posted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
Speaker: Henry Ward BeecherPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back.
Speaker: Piet HeinPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.
Speaker: Johann Gottfried Von HerderPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:18 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
Speaker: Arthur Conan DoylePosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:18 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
