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• So the journey is over and I am back again where I started, richer by much experience and poorer by many unexploded certainties. For convictions and certainties are too often the concomitants of ignorance. Those who like to feel they are always right and who attached a high importance to their own opinions should stay at home. When one is traveling, convictions are mislaid as easily as spectacles; but unlike spectacles, they are not easily replaced.

  Aldous Huxley

  Home, Ignorance, Journey

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• Las lentillas son para cerditos vanidosos y débiles de voluntad que se pavonean presumiendo: 'Mirad todos, puedo ver sin gafas. Nadie a primera vista supondrá que sé navegar por la red'.

  Greg Proops

  Cisnes, Lechón, Lentes

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• There is no shape nor size of body, no awkwardness nor ungainliness, which puts good golf beyond reach. There are good golfers with spectacles, with one eye, with one leg, even with one arm. In golf, while there is life there is hope.

  Charles Walter Simpson

  Eye, Golf, Body

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• When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by the terror of such spectacles, imaginations will paint things entirely strange to those who have not witnessed them.

  Denis Diderot

  Imagination, Strange, Breathe

  Denis Diderot (1966). "Escritos escogidos", New York : Macmillan

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• Marcada por una virulenta noción de dureza y masculinidad agresiva, la cultura de la violencia se ha convertido en algo habitual en una sociedad en la que el dolor, la humillación y el abuso se condensan en espectáculos digeribles que circulan sin cesar a través de los deportes extremos, la telerrealidad, los videojuegos, las publicaciones en YouTube y las formas proliferantes de los nuevos y viejos medios de comunicación.

  Henry Giroux

  Sports, Pain, Reality

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• Unfortunately, we live at a moment in which ignorance appears to be one of the defining features of American political and cultural life. Ignorance has become a form of weaponized refusal to acknowledge the violence of the past, and revels in a culture of media spectacles in which public concerns are translated into private obsessions, consumerism and fatuous entertainment.

  Henry Giroux

  Ignorance, Past, Political

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• At about six in the morning of July 3, 1860, while I was watering my petunias, and thinking of nothing in particular, I perceived coming towards me, a tall, beardless, fair-haired young fellow, wearing a German cap and gold-rimmed spectacles.

  Edmond Francois Valentin Sobre

  Mañana, Libro, Pensamiento

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• Cádiz es una ciudad mágica, como Cracovia o Dublín, para incendiar la mente a la vuelta de una esquina. ... El ojo es continuamente alimentado, la imaginación agitada, por un tren de espectáculos tan encantadores como si hubieran sido inventados.

  Honor Tracy

  Eye, Fire, Europe

  Honor Tracy (1957). “Silk Hats and No Breakfast: Notes on a Spanish Journey”, New York, Random House [1958

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• I also think he is given to disguises...Sometimes he wears spectacles and sometimes he does not. And twice he has worn an extremely peculiar hat. Inside.

  Julia Quinn

  Thinking, Hats, Doe

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• Si alguna vez viera a mi musa, sería una anciana con un moño apretado y gafas que me pinchara en mitad de la espalda y me gruñera: "¡Despierta y escribe el libro!

  Kerry Greenwood

  Book, Writing, Buns

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• La elegancia del vestido, del movimiento y de los modales da brillo a la belleza e inflama los sentidos a través de la imaginación. Las diversiones lujosas, los bailes de medianoche y los espectáculos licenciosos representan a la vez una tentación y una oportunidad para la fragilidad femenina. La pobreza, la soledad y los penosos cuidados de la vida doméstica protegían a las mujeres de los bárbaros de tales peligros.

  Edward Gibbon

  Oportunidad, Historia, Dar

  Edward Gibbon (1854). "Historia de la decadencia y caída del imperio romano, con notas de Milman y Guizot. Ed. por W. Smith", p.363

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• Our lives are just spectacles. We are like dolls, in a sense, to be observed and played with - often with cruel and deceitful intentions - in an unreal world.

  Kathryn Lasky

  Dolls, World, Intention

  Kathryn Lasky (2013). “The Royal Diaries: Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria-France, 1769”, p.182, Scholastic Inc.

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• Las instituciones del atletismo universitario existen principalmente como una irrealidad alimentada por el engaño. La irrealidad es que las universidades deberían dedicarse a proporcionar grandes espectáculos de entretenimiento de masas. El absurdo fundamental de esa noción requiere la promulgación de los diversos engaños necesarios para llevarla a cabo.

  Charlie Pierce

  College, Deceit, Fundamentals

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• Man is but mortal: and there is a point beyond which human courage cannot extend. Mr. Pickwick gazed through his spectacles for an instant on the advancing mass, and then fairly turned his back and-we will not say fled; firstly, because it is an ignoble term, and, secondly, because Mr. Pickwick's figure was by no means adapted for that mode of retreat-he trotted away, at as quick a rate as his legs would convey him;.

  Charles Dickens

  Divertido, Humorístico, Malvado

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.31

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• It is this admirable and immortal instinct for beauty which causes us to regard the earth and its spectacles as a glimpse, a correspondence of the beyond.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beauty, Causes, Glimpse

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• The man who cannot wonder, who does not habitually wonder (and worship), were he President of innumerable Royal Societies, and carried the whole Mecanique Celeste and Hegel's Philosophy, and the epitome of all Laboratories and Observatories with their results, in his single head, is but a Pair of Spectacles behind which there is no Eye. Let those who have Eyes look through him, then he may be useful.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Eye, Enthusiasm, Pairs

  "Sartor Resartus: El historiador".

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• ...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and spectacles and rheumatism and forgetfulness! It is so silly! Old age has nothing whatever to do with all that. The right old age means strength and beauty and mirth and courage and clear eyes and strong painless limbs.

  George MacDonald

  Strong, Silly, Mean

  George Macdonald (2015). “MacDonalds’ Fairy-Tale Treasure Chest”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason. . . .

  Luther Burbank

  Book, Religion, Judgment

  Luther Burbank (1927). “My Beliefs”

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• El ministerio británico puede leer ese nombre sin gafas; que dupliquen su recompensa.

  John Hancock

  Names, Ministry, Rewards

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• Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our own judgment and reason, listening to the voice within, not to the noisy babel without. Most of us possess discriminating reasoning powers. Can we use them or must we be fed by others like babes?

  Luther Burbank

  Fear, Book, Voice

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• Spectacles are deaths Harquebuze.
  [Spectacles are death's arquebuse.]

  George Herbert

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• What’s this? What are the antagonists doing here – infiltrating their own audience? Well, they’re not really. It’s somebody else’s audience at the moment, and these nightly spectacles are an appreciable part of the darkside hours of life of the rocket capital. The chances for any paradox here, really, are less than you think.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Thinking, Rockets, Chance

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