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“ Děkuji Ti bolesti, děkuji za dar, který jsi mé bytosti dala. Dar poznání. Přijímám Tě a hlavu skláním. Omývej mne, očisti mne, vždyť já sám sobě kdysi trn do srdce vrazil.
- Těžko říci.


“ Takový člověk potom ještě žije, ale je v nulovém stavu. A kdo je v takovém stavu, ten už nenaříká. Nula je nula. Naříkání je s nulovým stavem neslučitelné.
- Clemens Kuby - Na cestě do sousední dimenze: moje putování za léčiteli a šamany


“ Když mi bylo deset, tatínek řekl: Děti, nebudou žádné zákazy. Musíte se ale chovat tak, abyste se sami před sebou nemuseli stydět a my se nemuseli stydět za vás. A to stačilo pro celý život. Chtěla jsem, aby na mě táta byl pyšný.
- Ludmila Šeflová v článku Aby na mě táta byl pyšný.


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Do spirály jít
na Adventní den
Anděle bělostný
za ruku mě vem

Není kudy dál
není kudy ven
Anděle bělostný
za ruku mě vem


- Oldřich Janota: Anděle bělostný


“ Never trust those hippies. They just want to keep you from killing one another. Therefore, logically, if a hippie promotes peace, equality and freedom it means they hate you.
- WikaJunkie o Hnutí Brontosaurus.


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1) Can you name one country where U.S. development intervention has been a substantial source of sustained economic growth?

2) Can you name one country where U.S. development intervention has led to a stable, well-functioning Democracy in the long-run – especially since we are doing such a bang-up job centrally planning a government in Afghanistan (and I’m not at all convinced Iraq will be a stable democracy once we stop propping it up with our armed forces)? Oh, I think we also appropriate aid to dictators to vote-buy in sham elections, how is that promoting effective governance and democracy again?

3) Can you name a single country where U.S. development intervention has brought “food security”? Especially considering we actively harm food security in developing countries by our use of big agra farm subsidies and absurd food aid policies.

4) Can you name a single country where U.S. development intervention has brought about “health” on any substantial magnitude? Many vaccinations programs have been successful, but I would never qualify any of the countries as having reached “health” – especially considering the amount of money and time we have spent over these last decades.

5) Can you name a single country where U.S. development intervention has successfully mitigated climate change? In fact, if I remember correctly, hasn’t the U.S. failed to pass some type of carbon tax to alleviate our own concerns about climate change – yet we have the arrogance to claim we can help other countries?


- “Ted” v komentáři k článku QDDR: we can hardly contain our excitement


“ The myth of scale is seductive because it is easier to spread technology than to effect extensive change in social attitudes and human capacity. In other words, it is much less painful to purchase a hundred thousand PCs than to provide a real education for a hundred thousand children; it is easier to run a text-messaging health hotline than to convince people to boil water before ingesting it; it is easier to write an app that helps people find out where they can buy medicine than it is to persuade them that medicine is good for their health.
- Kentaro Toyama o tom, proč vznikají stále další a další “OLPC-like” projekty a rozvojový svět je pořád v průměru stejně chudý.


“ Lámat hlavu si člověk nemusí. Buď budete bohatý, nebo chudý. Když budete bohatý, netřeba si lámat hlavu. Když budete chudý, máte jen dva problémy, buď budete chudý a zdravý, nebo chudý a nemocný. Když budete zdravý, nejsou potřeba starosti. Když budete nemocný, jde o to, zda to přežijete, nebo nepřežijete. Když to přežijete, tak si nemusíte lámat hlavu. Když ne, máte jen jednu otázku: buď půjdete do nebe, nebo do pekla. Když půjdete do nebe, je všechno v pořádku. Když půjdete do pekla, ani to není důvod k tomu, lámat si hlavu, protože tam na vás čekají všichni vaši přátelé.
- Němci byli nepřátelé, zrada Čechů mě bolí víc, říká židovský emigrant Harry Pollak - iDNES.cz


What burns you?

  • Make Mama Proud: Do you have any lessons for folks that getting out of school and either thinking about what to do or trying to do it?
  • Ben Losman:
  • When recruiting new Youth Venturers, we ask young people two major questions
  • (1) What burns you about society? and
  • (2) Do you have the courage to stand up and do something about it?
  • Start with the first question. Identify your passions and interests (it helps to do this with someone who knows you well); create a broad list of topics and issues that you can read and say to yourself, “I’d be excited to dedicate myself to at least one of these things.” Then start exploring the work that’s being done to address those issues. Using your issues as anchor points, cast a wide net – ask friends, family, professors, etc. for leads, ideas, and connections. Search for organizations and companies doing interesting work (idealist.org is my go-to starting point). Don’t filter the results by geography; you might find amazing work in a place to which you’d never move – use this as a stepping stone to discover new ideas and connections.


“ Armenians are an ethno-criminal network, imposing a threat to the whole world, and Armenia is a coordination center of the network.
- Mubariz Ahmedoglu, ředitel azerbajdžánského Centra pro politické inovace a technologie v článku Azerbaijani political scientist: Armenians are ethno-criminal network imposing threat to the whole world