The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present.

~ E. H. Carr

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn’t, but if he was sane, he had to fly them. If he flew them, he was crazy and didn’t have to; but if he didn’t want to, he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.

“That’s some catch, that Catch-22,” he observed.

“It’s the best there is,” Doc Daneeka agreed.

The Charecters – Yossarian – Orr – Doc Daneeka
To learn more about the book – Catch-22
The Author – Joseph Heller

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

~ Thomas Jefferson

NOTE:
La Sequía (Spanish) = The Drought (English)

The evil of the world is made possible only by the sanction you give it.

~ John Galt

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To learn more about the book – Atlas Shrugged
The Author – Ayn Rand

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy”. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment. I told them they didn’t understand life.

~ John Lennon

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

~ Confucius

He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot will be victorious.

~ from the treatise The Art of War by Sun Tzu.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

~ Edward Abbey

“It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.”

~ Theodore Roosevelt

“History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.”

~ Mark Twain

“You have heard it said that this is an age of moral crisis. You have said it yourself, half in fear, half in hope that the words had no meaning. You have cried that man’s sins are destroying the world and you have cursed human nature for its unwillingness to practice the virtues you demanded. Since virtue, to you, consists of sacrifice, you have demanded more sacrifices at every successive disaster. In the name of a return to morality, you have sacrificed all those evils which you held as the cause of your plight. You have sacrificed justice to mercy. You have sacrificed independence to unity. You have sacrificed reason to faith. You have sacrificed wealth to need. You have sacrificed self-esteem to self-denial. You have sacrificed happiness to duty.

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To learn more about the book – Atlas Shrugged
The Author – Ayn Rand