"Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent."

-- John of the Cross

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“The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.”
“The WTO has outlived its usefulness as a setting for trade negotiations. It can still be a good place to resolve disputes (though this can take years) and share ideas, but most countries would be better off choosing their own trading partners and lowering trade barriers at their own pace.”

Source : "Why the WTO Is Obsolete". Interview with Daniel Altman, bigthink.com.
“Nazi Literature in the Americas, a wicked invented encyclopedia of imaginary fascist writers and literary tastemakers, is BolaÃ±o playing with sharp, twisting knives. As if he were Borges's wisecracking, sardonic son, BolaÃ±o has meticulously created a tightly woven network of far-right litterateurs and purveyors of belles lettres for whom Hitler was beauty, truth, and the great lost hope.”
“Even when I'm alone I have real good company â€” dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships â€” and nice, jolly little times with people.”
“The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and pencil surpass him in intelligence.”
“The question about who God is is a very public question. We don't have the tools in this kind of political atmosphere to handle that, and maybe politics isn't the best place to answer that. It is a public issue.”

Source : Source: www.realclearreligion.org
“Arms control has to have a future, or none of us does. But it doesn't necessarily have to come in big packages of 600-page treaties.”
“Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from the real, true, and perfect thing.”

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