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English author and journalist 1903–1950

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“Atheism is a non-prophet organization.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

“Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.”

Bashō Matsuo book Oku no Hosomichi

Matsuo Bashō, Narrow Road to the Interior and other writings, Boston, 2000, p. 3 (Translation: Sam Hamill)
Oku no Hosomichi
Variant: The journey itself is my home.

Home

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“The Chilean far right did not win an election: it won oblivion. And with those who vote against memory, there is no debate—because dialogue begins only where consciousness still remains.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Radiorama de Occidente. 1480 AM Rock&Pop.

Memory

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“So much immorality, so much petty selfishness in using migrants for mere electoral interests.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: La Otra Historia. Radiorama de Occidente. 1480AM Rock&Pop. Guadalajara, Mexico.

Selfishness

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“Power does not need to impose itself when it manages to pay you for your silence: a punctual paycheck is enough to make obedience seem like common sense.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: 1480AM. La Otra Historia. Guadalajara, Mexico.

Silence , Sense

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“The right does not deny the disappeared detainees: it manages them as silence. For them, they are not absent bodies but obstacles already overcome; and upon that well-ordered grave they build their idea of a country.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Radiorama de Occidente. La Otra Historia. 1480 AM Rock&Pop. Guadalajara, Mexico.

Country , Silence , Idea

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“There will remain the trace of Trump and right-wing policies: warped decisions, brutal words, and the habit of treating human dignity as a nuisance.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Interview.

Decision

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“The UN’s silence in the face of Trump is the final stone in its own grave.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Radiorama de Occidente. 1480 AM. Guadalajara, Mexico.

Silence

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“Then will come the excuse of those who supported this New World, saying they did not know, that it was exaggerated, that they were only defending order.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Interview.

Support , World

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“And there will remain the uncomfortable memory, the precise recollection of the day when, following Trump and his policies, they accepted the unacceptable without questioning it.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Interview.

Question , Memory

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“In Guadalajara, those who have never waited for a bus under the sun, who have never breathed the heavy air of a public hospital nor reached out to the government for help, raise their hands to decide for you.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: 1480 AM Rock&Pop. Guadalajara, Mexico.

Waiting , Sun , Help

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“Critical thinking ends up domesticated by the noise of political and religious partisanship, because in these lands doubting becomes betrayal and thinking a suspicious act.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: La Otra Historia. 1480 AM Rock&Pop. Guadalajara, Mexico.

Betrayal , Thinking

“If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.”

Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet

Source: The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

Music

“Many people … go through life with hardly an original thought; gravitate from one pleasure or amusement to another; gain a livelihood doing what someone else has assigned; flee boredom as best they can; marry and beget children; and then, without having made the slightest difference of any unique significance, die and decay like any animal.”

Richard Taylor (philosopher) (1919–2003) American philosopher, born 1919

Source: Restoring Pride: The Lost Virtue of Our Age (1995), p. 115

Life , Children , People , Pleasure

“Instead of supposing that a work of art must be something that all can behold—a poem, a painting, a book, a great building—consider making your own life a work of art. You have yourself to begin with, and a time of uncertain duration to work on it. You do not have to be what you are, and even though you may be quite content with who you are, it will not be hard for you to think of something much greater that you might become. It need not be something spectacular or even something that will attract notice from others. What it will be is a kind of excellence that you project for yourself, and then attain—something that you can take a look at, with honest self-appraisal, and be proud of.”

Richard Taylor (philosopher) (1919–2003) American philosopher, born 1919

Source: Restoring Pride: The Lost Virtue of Our Age (1995), p. 64

Life , Books , Art , Thinking

“What is remarkable is that human beings are actually able to carry out this code-breaking operation, that the human mind has the necessary intellectual equipment for us to "unlock the secrets of nature"…”

Paul Davies (1946) British physicist

Source: The Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World (1992), Ch. 6: 'The Mathematical Secret', p. 148

Secret , Nature

“Whoever is happy will make others happy too.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Deep , Life , Positive , Cute

“I hope to keep on living the present in a way that I can always be proud of myself in front of tomorrow's me.”

Yuzuru Hanyu (1994) Japanese figure skater (1994-)

Other quotes, 2015
Original: (ja) 明日の自分が今の自分を見たら胸張っていられるように、そんな今を過ごし続けたいなという風に思ってます。
Source: Interview with NHK on 15 June 2015, aired the same day in the evening news program News Watch 9.

Hope , Way

“But what did he mean by that?”

Klemens von Metternich (1773–1859) Austrian diplomat

Metternich remarking upon hearing the news of Castlereagh's death by suicide.
Greenhalgh, Michael. Marble Past, Monumental Present: Building with Antiquities in the Mediaeval Mediterranean. Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2009 (pp. 20).

“Obviously it takes eight brains to come to one decision in this crowd. Good thing they have one another.”

Mari Mancusi (1974) American writer

Source: Girls That Growl

Decision

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