Busy living

"Where has the starlight gone?
Dark is the day
How can I find my way home?

[...]

Home is an empty dream
Lost to the night
Father, I feel so alone

[...]

When will the dawning break
Oh endless night
Sleepless I dream of the day..."

Título III. Capítulo segundo. Articulo 48.
El servicio de la cultura es atribución esencial del Estado, y lo prestará mediante instituciones educativas enlazadas por el sistema de la escuela unificada.
La enseñanza primaria será gratuita y obligatoria.
Los maestros, profesores y catedráticos de la enseñanza oficial son funcionarios públicos. La libertad de cátedra queda reconocida y garantizada.
La República legislará en el sentido de facilitar a los españoles económicamente necesitados el acceso a todos los grados de enseñanza, a fin de que no se halle condicionado más que por la aptitud y la vocación.
La enseñanza será laica, hará del trabajo el eje de su actividad metodológica y se inspirará en ideales de solidaridad humana.
Se reconoce a las Iglesias el derecho, sujeto a inspección del Estado, de enseñar sus respectivas doctrinas en sus propios establecimientos.

Constitución de la República Española de 1931

“We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote.”

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

"Yo no creo en la felicidad, si le digo la verdad. Creo solamente en la inquietud; o sea, nunca estoy feliz del todo, siempre necesito hacer otra cosa. Pero admito que en la vida hay felicidades que duran diez segundos, o incluso media hora, como cuando nació mi primer hijo; en ese instante estaba feliz. Pero son momentos brevísimos. Alguien que es feliz toda la vida es un cretino. Por eso prefiero, antes que ser feliz, ser inquieto […] La verdadera felicidad es la inquietud. Ir de caza, no matar al pájaro."

"You know, one of the things that I do think government counts on is that people are busy. And it's very difficult to mobilize a busy and relatively affluent country, unless it's over really crucial-- you know, foundational issues. That come sort of sort of a tipping point. [...] But war that hasn't affected us here, in the way that you would imagine a five-year war would affect a country. I think that's why they're so really — here's the disconnect. It's sort of this odd and I've always had this problem with the rationality of it. That the President says, "We are in the fight for a way of life. This is the greatest battle of our generation, and of the generations to come. "And, so what I'm going to do is you know, Iraq has to be won, or our way of life ends, and our children and our children's children all suffer. So, what I'm gonna do is send 10,000 more troops to Baghdad."
So, there's a disconnect there between — you're telling me this is fight of our generation, and you're going to increase troops by 10 percent. And that's gonna do it. I'm sure what he would like to do is send 400,000 more troops there, but he can't, because he doesn't have them. And the way to get that would be to institute a draft. And the minute you do that, suddenly the country's not so damn busy anymore. And then they really fight back, and then the whole thing falls apart. So, they have a really delicate balance to walk between keeping us relatively fearful, but not so fearful that we stop what we're doing and really examine how it is that they've been waging this."

“Today, I want to talk to you about the subject of plans. Life plans. How we all make them. And how we all hope that our kids make good, smart, safe plans of their own. But if we’re really honest with ourselves, most of the times our plans don’t work out as we’d hoped. So instead of asking our young people: What are your plans? What do you want to do with your life? Maybe we should tell them this: plan to be surprised."

“I’m looking for a book, obviously. Something that can help me deal with what might be an awkward situation. Something funny might be nice. But not necessarily big “ha ha ha”, laugh-out-loud funny, you know, and certainly not make-fun-of-other-people funny, but rather something, uh, human funny. And if it could sneak up on you, surprise you, and at the same time make you think that what you thought was not only right in a wrong kind of way, but when you’re wrong there is a certain rightness to your wrongness. Well, maybe what I mean is, um, more importantly, I’m looking to be swept up. And at the same time not. Meaning I wanna feel, uh, a deep connection to something… Or maybe I don’t know what I’m looking for.”

“Españolito que vienes
al mundo, te guarde Dios.
una de las dos Españas
ha de helarte el corazón.”