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I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. ↗
#debt #deficit-spending #government #loans #political-science
I believe in making my potential models comfortable,’ he explained when she shot a surprised look at him. ‘I’m considerate, unlike some artists who bend their sitters into difficult positions and expect them to stay there for hours. My demands are entirely reasonable.’ For a moment, her libido got interested in his demands. What would it be like to listen to the soft caress of his voice as he told her how he wanted her? To have those midnight-blue eyes roam over every inch of her body? To be passive, helpless, whilst he did whatever he pleased? ↗
Kitty waved her free hand to show that she was ok, although she was very tempted to stand over one of Adam’s window-washing puddles and pretend her waters had broken just to see what he would do. ↗
It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial things, for driving to nowhere in particular, for listening to music, for talking about books, for obsessing over pop culture, but mostly for laughing, talking, and simply being together. There was nothing one could say that the other would find too cruel or too kind. And on those rare occasions when they did tire of each other, they needed only go a day without talking before they yearned to reconnect. ↗
These romantic visions of the peasantry were constantly undone by contact with reality, often with devastating consequences for their bearers. The populists, who invested much of themselves in their conception of the peasants, suffered the most in this respect, since the disintegration of that conception threatened to undermine not only their radical beliefs but also their own self-identity. ↗
I don’t know why Kate was trying to impress him, as far as I could see the guy had all the allure and social grace of a psychotic slug with halitosis and a bad head cold. ↗
I've never really had time for romantic relationships. I have much more important things to worry about, like saving the world from zombies. ↗
#apocalyptic #importance #important #relationship #relationships
EL FANTASMA DE EDNA LIEBERMAN Te visitan en la hora más oscura todos tus amores perdidos. El camino de tierra que conducía al manicomio se despliega otra vez como los ojos de Edna Lieberman, como sólo podían sus ojos elevarse por encima de las ciudades y brillar. Y brillan nuevamente para ti los ojos de Edna detrás del aro de fuego que antes era el camino de tierra, la senda que recorriste de noche, ida y vuelta, una y otra vez, buscándola o acaso buscando tu sombra. Y despiertas silenciosamente y los ojos de Edna están allí. Entre la luna y el aro de fuego, leyendo a sus poetas mexicanos favoritos. ¿ y a Gilberto Owen, lo has leído?, dicen tus labios sin sonido, dice tu respiración y tu sangre que circula como la luz de un faro. Pero son sus ojos el faro que atraviesa tu silencio. Sus ojos que son como el libro de geografía ideal: los mapas de la pesadilla pura. Y tu sangre ilumina los estantes con libros, las sillas con libros, el suelo lleno de libros apilados. Pero los ojos de Edna sólo te buscan a ti. Sus ojos son el libro más buscado. Demasiado tarde lo has entendido, pero no importa. En el sueño vuelves a estrechar sus manos, y ya no pides nada. ↗
We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge. ↗
When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars. ↗
