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• Los padres temen la destrucción del afecto natural en sus hijos. ¿Cuál es este principio natural tan propenso a la decadencia? La costumbre es una segunda naturaleza, que destruye la primera. ¿Por qué la costumbre no es naturaleza? Sospecho que esta misma naturaleza no es sino una primera costumbre, como la costumbre es una segunda naturaleza.

  Blaise Pascal

  Niños, Padres, Primeros

  Blaise Pascal (1828). “Thoughts on religion, and other subjects”, p.112

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• If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support. Or, put another way, autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.

  Karen DeCrow

  Father, Pregnancy, Independent

  Letter to the editor by Karen DeCrow, www.nytimes.com. May 9, 1982.

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• La amistad es la indecible alegría y bendición que resulta para dos o más individuos que desde su constitución simpatizan. Tales naturalezas no son susceptibles de errores, sino que se conocerán en las buenas y en las malas. Entre dos que por naturaleza son iguales y aptos para simpatizar, no hay velo, y no puede haber obstáculo. ¿Quiénes son los separados? Dos amigos que se explican.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Mistake, Blessing

  Henry David Thoreau (1973). “Winter: From the Journal of Henry David Thoreau”

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• The more we study mind and matter scientifically the more we see that all things follow a natural sequence, a sequence as liable to work for our disadvantage as for our advantage. It flows like the water of a river, it falls like rain, it is as impartial as the sea. It is as innocent of malice as it is of compassion.

  Llewelyn Powys

  Rain, Fall, Compassion

  Llewelyn Powys (1961). “Llewelyn Powys: A Selection from His Writings”

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• That the past is ahead, in front of us, is a conception of time that helps us retain our memories and to be aware of its presents. What is behind us [the future] cannot be seen and is liable to be forgotten readily. What is ahead of us [the past] cannot be forgotten so readily or ignored, for it is in front of our minds' eyes, always reminding us of its presence. The past is alive in us, so in more than a metaphorical sense the dead are alive - we are our history.

  Epeli Hau'ofa

  Recuerdos, Ojo, Pasado

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• Our understanding of the thought of the past is liable to be the more adequate, the less the historian is convinced of the superiority of his own point of view, or the more he is prepared to admit the possibility that he may have to learn something, not merely about the thinkers of the past, but from them.

  Leo Strauss

  Past, Views, Understanding

  Leo Strauss (1959). “What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies”, p.68, University of Chicago Press

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• Stirner's political praxis is quixotic. It accepts the established hierarchies of constraint as given. ... Not liable to any radical change, they constitute part of the theatre housing the individual's action. ... The egoist uses the elements of the social structure as props in his self-expressive act.

  John Carroll

  Self, Political, Theatre

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• Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too dear.

  Hosea Ballou

  Pride, Cost, Prosperity

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• Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.

  Rufus Choate

  Power, Reactions, Extremes

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• You must on no account attempt to use the squares given in the Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage until you have succeeded in the Operation. More, unless you mean to perform it, and are prepared to go to any length to do so, you are a fool to have the book in your possession at all. Those squares are liable to get loose and do things on their own initiative; and you won't like it.

  Aleister Crowley

  Book, Mean, Squares

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• Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable to many corruptions and diseases, and the things in question are not really pleasant, but only pleasant to these particular persons, who are in a condition to think them so.

  Aristotle

  Hombres, Pensar, Buen Hombre

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.271, Wordsworth Editions

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• Where else is fatness at a premium? The answer is clear. There are two classes of mammals which are liable to accumulate large quantities of adipose tissue - hibernating mammals and aquatic mammals.

  Elaine Morgan

  Class, Two, Mammals

  Elaine Morgan (2011). “The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis”, p.69, Souvenir Press

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• Democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the oligarchs falling out among themselves and also with the people; but in democracies there is only the danger of a quarrel with the oligarchs. No dissension worth mentioning arises among the people themselves. And we may further remark that a government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.

  Aristotle

  Fall, Government, Class

  Aristotle (1943). “On man in the universe: Metaphysics, Parts of animals, Ethics, Politics, Poetics”

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• Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner.

  George Eliot

  May, Majestic, Emotion

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.412, Penguin

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• Even if the constants which economists wish to determine were less numerous, and the method of experiment more accessible, we should still be faced with the fact that the constants themselves are different at different times. The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness, are liable to vary. The constitution of the atom, as it were, and not merely its position, changes under the influence of environment.

  Arthur Cecil Pigou

  Wish, Demand, Facts

  "La economía del bienestar". Libro de Arthur Cecil Pigou (4ª edición, 1932), Cap. 1 : Bienestar y bienestar económico, § 4, 1920.

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• La constante de gravitación es siempre la misma. Pero las constantes económicas -las elasticidades de la oferta y la demanda-, que dependen de la conciencia humana, pueden variar. La constitución del átomo, por así decirlo, y no sólo su posición, cambia bajo la influencia del entorno.

  Arthur Cecil Pigou

  Fuerte, Hombres, Emocional

  "La economía del bienestar". Libro de Arthur Cecil Pigou (4ª edición, 1932), Cap. 1 : Bienestar y bienestar económico, § 4, 1920.

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• True charity is liable to excesses and transports.

  Jean Baptiste Massillon

  Excess, Charity, Transport

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• Los hombres no pueden trabajar siempre. Deben tener intervalos de relajación. No pueden dormir durante estos intervalos. ¿Qué deben hacer? Pues, si no trabajan ni duermen, deben tener recreación. Y si no tienen recreación de fuentes saludables, es muy probable que la tomen de las fuentes envenenadas de la intemperancia. O, si tienen placeres que, aunque inocentes, están prohibidos por las máximas de la moralidad pública, sus mismos placeres pueden convertirse en fuentes envenenadas.

  Orville Dewey

  Sueño, Hombres, Relajación

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• The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong.

  John Tillotson

  Anger, Controversy, Persons

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• All people interested in their work are liable to overrate their vocation. There may be makers of dolls' eyes who wonder how society would go on without them.

  Harriet Martineau

  Eye, People, Dolls

  Harriet Martineau (2015). “Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (Vol. I: Abridged, Annotated)”, p.181, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• With the IoT, we're headed to a world where things aren't liable to break catastrophically - or at least, we'll have a hell of a heads' up. We're headed to a world where our doors unlock when they sense us nearby.

  Scott Weiss

  Doors, World, Hell

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• Las cosas absurdamente improbables pueden ocurrir tanto en la vida real como en la débil literatura.

  Ada Leverson

  Real, Literature, Unexpected

  Ada Leverson (1907). “The Twelfth Hour”

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• Cuando no veo nada aniquilado, y ni siquiera una gota de agua desperdiciada, no puedo sospechar la aniquilación de las almas Así, encontrándome a mí mismo existiendo en el mundo, creo que, de una forma u otra, existiré siempre; con todos los inconvenientes a que la vida humana está expuesta, no me opondré a una nueva edición de la mía; esperando, sin embargo, que las erratas de la última puedan ser corregidas.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Creer, Agua, Alma

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• A philosopher ... is not fairly judged by his eccentricities, nor by the frailties to which he is liable; still less should his philosophy as a whole fall into ill-repute because of those among its devotees who have stumbled into wells, or who aimlessly pass their lives in whetting their faculties and then neglecting to use them.

  John Grier Hibben

  Philosophy, Fall, Use

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• Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation. To acquire it, appears not more difficult than to be dispossessed of it when acquired, since it enables the holder to shift his own errors on dependents, and to take their merits to himself. But the miracle of losing it vanishes, when we reflect that we are as liable to fall as to rise, by the treachery of others; and that to say "I am" is language that has been appropriated exclusively to God!

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fall, Errors, Giving

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.23

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