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• Supongamos que yo dijera que existe un planeta sin escuelas ni maestros, donde el estudio es desconocido y, sin embargo, sus habitantes, sin hacer otra cosa que vivir y caminar, llegan a conocer todas las cosas y a llevar en su mente todo el saber. Pues bien, justamente esto, que parece tan fantasioso como para no ser más que la invención de una imaginación fértil, es una realidad. Es la forma de aprender del niño.

  María Montessori

  Profesor, Niños, Escuela

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• Being in grief, it turns out, is not unlike being in love.
  In both states, the imagination's entirely occupied with one person. The beloved dwells at the heart of the world, and becomes a Rome: the roads of feeling all lead to him, all proceed from him. Everything that touches us seems to relate back to that center: there is no other emotional life, no place outside the universe of feeling centered on its pivotal figure.

  Mark Doty

  Grief, Heart, Being In Love

  Mark Doty (1996). “Heaven's Coast: A Memoir”, Harpercollins

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• Grief does not seem to me to be a choice. Whether or not you think grief has value, you will lose what matters to you. The world will break your heart. So I think we’d better look at what grief might offer us. It’s like what Rilke says about self-doubt: it is not going to go away, and therefore you need to think about how it might become your ally.

  Mark Doty

  Grief, Heart, Thinking

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• If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.

  John Scalzi

  Consciousness, Social, Stuck

  Twitter post from Feb 10, 2014

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• A disruption of the circadian cycle—the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday life—seems to be involved in many, if not most, cases of depression; this is why brutal insomnia so often occurs and is most likely why each day’s pattern of distress exhibits fairly predictable alternating periods of intensity and relief.

  William Styron

  Insomnia, Patterns, Relief

  William Styron (2010). “Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness”, p.16, Open Road Media

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• Cuando eres niño, si ves 'The Jeffersons' con tu familia a las siete en punto, parece un fenómeno natural, como la puesta de sol. El universo es un lugar extraño, muy extraño, cuando de repente ya no puedes usar tu vaso con la Mujer Biónica.

  Heather O'Neill

  Kids, Strange Places, Glasses

  Heather O'Neill (2009). "Canciones de cuna para pequeños criminales: A Novel", p.27, Harper Collins

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• On of the reasons that I wanted to study literature was because it exposed everything. Writers looked for secrets that had never been mined. Every writer has to invent their own magical language, in order to describe the indescribable. They might seem to be writing in French, English, or Spanish, but really they were writing in the language of butterflies, crows, and hanged men.

  Heather O'Neill

  Butterfly, Writing, Men

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• I don't know why we'd need so many more prisons when the crooks seem so happy in the Senate.

  Jack Layton

  Crooks, Needs, Prison

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• My Prime Minister regards the economy as our highest priority and forgets that economics and ecology are derived from the same Greek word, oikos, meaning household or domain. Ecology is the study of home, while economics is its management. Ecologists try to define the conditions and principles that enable a species to survive and flourish. Yet in elevating the economy above those principles, we seem to think we are immune to the laws of nature. We have to put the ‘eco’ back into economics.

  David Suzuki

  Home, Thinking, Law

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• If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Thinking, Hair, Sky

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• Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Progress, Forests, Mankind

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• The financial crisis appears to be mostly behind us, and the economy seems to have stabilized and is expanding again.

  Ben Bernanke

  Financial, Economy, Expanding

  "DAVID ROSENBERG: Mario Draghi Just Uttered His Famous Last Words" by Mamta Badkar, www.businessinsider.com. July 27, 2012.

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• The impact on the broader economy and financial markets of the problems in the subprime markets seems likely to be contained.

  Ben Bernanke

  Impact, Financial, Problem

  "Explaining FinReg: Shadow bank runs, or the problem behind the problem". voices.washingtonpost.com. June 20, 2007.

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• Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Attention, Literature, Causes

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• A meaningful life is composed of a series of meaningful moments. If this is what we want, then the ability to infuse each moment with meaning would seem to be a skill worth practicing.

  Bill Crawford

  Meaningful, Skills, Want

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• He partido de este planeta y he dejado atrás a mis pobres terrestres con sus ocupaciones tan numerosas como inútiles; por fin vivo en el centelleante esplendor de las estrellas, cada una de las cuales me parecía tan grande como millones de soles.

  Jules Massenet

  Estrellas, Partida, Inútil

  Jules Massenet (1971). "Mis recuerdos (1848-1912)".

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• Una persona puede ser un imbécil o un imbécil si carece de juicio; pero con buen juicio nunca puede ser ni lo uno ni lo otro. De hecho, el resto de las facultades intelectuales parecen de poca importancia en comparación con el juicio.

  Alfred Binet

  Intellectual, May, Littles

  Alfred Binet (1977). “Significant contributions to the history of psychology: 1750-1920”

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• Nos parece que en la inteligencia hay una facultad fundamental, cuya alteración o carencia es de la mayor importancia para la vida práctica. Esta facultad es el juicio, también llamado buen sentido, sentido práctico, iniciativa, la facultad de adaptarse uno mismo a las circunstancias. Una persona puede ser un imbécil o un imbécil si carece de juicio; pero con buen juicio nunca puede ser ni lo uno ni lo otro. De hecho, el resto de las facultades intelectuales parecen de poca importancia en comparación con el juicio.

  Alfred Binet

  Self, Intellectual, Fundamentals

  "The development of intelligence in children" by Alfred Binet, Théodore Simon, translated by Elizabeth S. Kite, Reprinted 1973, New York: Arno Press, (pp. 42-43), 1983.

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• Me parece que, a menos que usted o alguien muy cercano a usted haya tenido una lesión grave en la cabeza, realmente no puede comprenderlo. No tienes ni idea de lo que se trata. Fue muy difícil para toda mi familia, no solo para mí.

  Barbara Mandrell

  Injury, Head Injuries, Whole Family

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• What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their time now seem almost harmless and laughable, because they have this archaic quality.

  Philip Kaufman

  Interesting, Quality, Laughable

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Echoes, Media, Hands

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• Es en la unión de las corrientes Ascendente y Descendente donde se encuentra la armonía, y no en ninguna guerra entre ambas. Parece que sólo cuando la Ascendente y la Descendente están unidas, ambas pueden salvarse. Y si nosotros -si tú y yo- no contribuimos a esta unión, es muy posible que no sólo destruyamos la única Tierra que tenemos, sino que perdamos el único cielo que podríamos abrazar.

  Ken Wilber

  Guerra, Dos, Cielo

  Ken Wilber (2007). "Una breve historia de todo", p.19, Shambhala Publications

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• One can disintegrate the world by means of very strong light. For weak eyes the world becomes solid, for still weaker eyes it seems to develop fists, for eyes weaker still it becomes shamefaced and smashes anyone who dares to gaze upon it.

  Franz Kafka

  Strong, Mean, Eye

  Franz Kafka (1954). "Preparativos de boda en el campo: y otros escritos póstumos en prosa. Con notas de Max Brod".

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• Sin belleza, una chica es infeliz porque ha perdido la oportunidad de ser amada. La gente no se burla de ella, no son crueles con ella, pero es como si fuera invisible, ningún ojo la sigue cuando camina. La gente se siente incómoda cuando está con ella. Les resulta más fácil ignorarla. Una chica excepcionalmente bella, por otra parte, que tiene algo que sobrepasa con mucho la habitual frescura seductora de la adolescencia, parece de algún modo irreal. Una gran belleza parece presagiar invariablemente un destino trágico.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Hermosa, Chica, Ojo

  Michel Houellebecq (2001). “The Elementary Particles”, p.61, Vintage

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• Depressive lucidity, usually described as a radical withdrawal from ordinary human concerns, generally manifests itself by a profound indifference to things which are genuinely of minor interest. Thus it is possible to imagine a depressed lover, while the idea of a depressed patriot seems frankly inconceivable.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Ideas, Profound, Ordinary

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