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Dear
“Learn all theories and dominate alltechniques, but when touching a human soul be justanother human soul”. Carl Gustav Jung.
With this thought by a man who saw so clearly through thewindow of the human soul – I start this message for therenewal of hope at the beginning of 2013, addressing it to
friends and acquaintances who are responsible leaders andscholars, some of whom I have not met yet, but admire afterhaving read their writings. This message comes a little late,because vacations with grandchildren and the family arealways a priority. But I think that the moments of meditationremain at the beginning of each year.
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"Rotary will continue to be charitable, but it cando more than that. Let us make Rotary exterminate thecause that makes charity necessary". This pearl of thinking by our founder Paul Harris was published in "TheRotarian" magazine of August 1916.
This time I looked for help, in references from worldleaders and thinkers, to profit from their richexperiences, so as to enrich this text of reflections at thebeginning of the New Year. It is always useful to remember
the sensible message of:Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274): “Beware of the personof one book”.
"Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research."
- Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)
“The most valuable of all talents is never using two words
when one will do.” - Thomas Jefferson
"Great scholars are skeptics" - Friedrich Nietzsche
“Fanaticism is the only form or willpower available to the
weak” - Friedrich Nietzsche
”Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be
solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No
problem of human destiny is beyond human beings”.
John F. Kennedy
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Since a young age I was fascinated by the market
economy – a system where the producer, isolated, does not
take part in the evaluation of his product – it is the forces of
supply and demand that will determine the value-price. This
ethics, which exists also in the law of cause and effect for
human activity, is self-applicable
“Smith did make one claim that, in his day, was the
most important claim that he made. It laid the
foundation of modern economic theory. He claimed
that the free market system is autonomous. It would exist
apart from legislation by the state. He called this "the
system of natural liberty." He described how the free
market would work if the state did not intervene to pass
special-interest legislation that benefited one group or
another. What Rousseau claimed for the General Will, Smith
claimed for the free market. But Rousseau's General Will
needed a representative institution to express itself. Smith's
theory of the free market was its own interpreter. Gary
North
So, the market economy is something magical, that must
be pursued in an obstinate way – it was devalued, however,
by a system that does not offer equal opportunities for all.
Let us see how we can rescue it.
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We can find in Thomas Aquinas – XIII century – the
seeds of the free market. One of the main representatives
of scholastics (medieval philosophical line with a Christian
foundation), he founded the thomist school of philosophy and
theology, which thrived at the university of Salamanca in the
XVI century.
“The value of an article, does not depend on its
essential nature but on the estimation of men, even if
that estimation is foolish.” - Variarum (1554) - Diego de
Covarrubias y Leiva (1512-1577) - bishop of Segovia
In the XVII century William Petty (1623-1687), thefather of classical economic analysis, wrote two essays that
revolutionized economic thought in his time: a “Treaty on
Taxes and Contributions”, in 1662 and “Political Arithmetics”,
in 1690.
All of this orchestra of contributions was beautifullycondensed in the works of Adam Smith, who marked the
conscience, the soul and the heart of his generationand subsequent ones. The ethics contained in theentrails of the free market is the real reason that drivesme to passionately defend the free market economy.
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"Since time immemorial two political systems have
confronted one another and both have good arguments to
support them” “According to one, the state has to do a great
deal, but it also has to take a great deal. According to the
other, its twin action should be little felt. A choice has to be
made between these two systems.” - nineteenth-century
economist, Frédéric Bastiat
“The issue is always the same: the government or the
market. There is no third solution” – “Economics deals with
real man, weak and subject to error as he is, not with ideal
beings omniscient and perfect as only gods could be”. Von
Mises
“Neoliberalism appears to be little more than a
justification for plutocracy” “What they call “the
market” looks more like the interests of corporations
and the ultra-rich”. “It strikes me that the entire structure
of neoliberal thought is a fraud. The demands of the ultra-
rich have been dressed up as sophisticated economic theoryand applied regardless of the outcome. The complete failure
of this world-scale experiment is no impediment to its
repetition. This has nothing to do with economics. It has
everything to do with power”. George Monbiot
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”Socialism and middle-way economic interventionism
by the state produce poverty and bureaucracy. If your goalis to keep poor people poor, generation after
generation, you should promote socialism. But be sure to
call it economic democracy in order to fool the voters”. Gary
North
“The market is not an invention of capitalism. It hasexisted for centuries. It is an invention of civilization”.
Mikhail Gorbachov
"We must understand that capitalism was created to
deal with money, not with human beings". Maxwell
Vitor
“Capitalism is a banquet in which only the bones are left for
the poor”. Pierre de souza
"Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the belief
in ignorance and the preaching of envy. Its inherent
flaw is the egalitarian distribution of misery". WinstonChurchill
“Rich peasants have a strong propension to capitalism” . Mao
Tse-Tung
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"The market does not have a conscience or
mercy". Octavio Paz, mexican poet Nobel Prize in literature,1990
“The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not
an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the
well-being of the people there is no contradiction with
socialism. Mikhail Gorbachov
“We are evolving to socialism, a system which,
as they say, only works in Heaven, where it is
not needed, and in Hell, where it already exists”.
Ronald Reagan
” All hope abandon, ye who enter here”!(at Hell´s
door) Lasciate ogni speranza voi che entrate! Dante Alighieri
(1265-1321)
“The disadvantage of capitalism is the unequal
distribution of riches; the advantage of socialism is the
equal distribution of miseries”. Winston Churchill
"There is no greatness where there is no simplicity,
goodness and truth"– Leon Tolstoi.
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“For a world in which we are socially equal, humanly different
and totally free” . Rosa Luxemburgo
”Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital.
Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have
existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the
superior of capital, and deserves much the higher
consideration”. Abraham Lincoln
This truth must be rescued by all the zombies who are
wandering, lost and disconnected from the basic concepts of
economy.
"Everything the Communists told us about communism was a
complete and utter lie. Unfortunately, everything the
Communists told us about capitalism turned out to be true”. -
World Bank staffer John Nellis
Capitalism and socialism were bitter medicines in the
history of mankind, and they are no longer valid,
nowadays
“Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Socialism is
the opposite of it” . Millôr Fernandes
Government is an institution that invariably spends
more than it collects, either because of the high social
demand in societies with concentrated income, or because of
a perverse desire to feed the military might in rich societies.
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Government is an institution economically
impractical, because its revenues and expenditures shall be
determined by acts of human will. Economics is a science
whose techniques are valid and applicable when the will of
economic agents is limited by the natural law of supply and
demand
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon
loses both." - Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969),
Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953
The real need for government intervention is in thefact that 3 sectors: agriculture, health and education
cannot walk alone – The government needs to pump
resources into these 3 sectors – something necessary, even
if inefficient. Under the current rules, the reduction of
government intervention in the economy would considerably
increase the distance between poor and rich.
The complexity of modern societies cannot bemanaged by central planners. The so-called democratic
centralism is pure sophistry, that appeals only to autocratic
rulers.
Whatever the concept that one may have of democracy, the
fate of citizens cannot depend on the virtue of their
rulers.
Dictatorships or strong regimes are defended only by those
who would like to be lashing the whip; whenever placed on
the other side, they will stand for democracy emphatically.
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"The State is the great fiction through whicheverybody endeavors to live at the expense of
everyone else." Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)
"The problem has been developing for many years: a
sort of economic alcoholism in which society has
depended upon government to solve all its problems.
Governments have promised to do away with
unemployment, to eradicate poverty, to mitigate thepain of old age and sickness, even to ease the
consequences of banking and business mistakes. Such
irresistible promises! It was exactly what everyone
wanted. We became economic alcoholics,
dependent on government, and have had no concept
of who will pay the price for this happy addiction." Von
Mises - (from a speech at Athens College in 1984)
“There is only one kind of freedom and that's
individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and
our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do
with government granting it”. Ron Paul
“Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety
percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused
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by payments for past, present, and future wars”. Franklin D.
Roosevelt
“People do not make wars; governments do” . Ronald
Reagan
“Government always finds a need for whatever money it
gets” . Ronald Reagan
“No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size.
Government programs, once launched, never disappear.Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing toeternal life we'll ever see on this earth!” Ronald Reagan
“Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the mostto be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies. From these proceed
debts and taxes. And armies, debts and taxes are theknown instruments for bringing the many under thedominion of the few.... No nation could preserve itsfreedom in the midst of continual warfare”. James Madison,the principal architect of the U.S. Constitution - 1795
“We can either have democracy in this country or wecan have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a
few, but we can’t have both.” – Louis Brandeis - U.S.
Supreme Court Justice (1856-1941)
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"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -
it only guarantees equality of opportunity." - Irving
Kristol
“We should measure welfare's success by how many
people leave welfare, not by how many are added”.
Ronald Reagan
“My reading of history convinces me that most bad
government results from too much government” .
Thomas Jefferson
“Government could not help us to solve problems,
government is a problem”. Ronald Reagan
“Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a
few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving,
regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it” . - Ronald
Reagan
“Why has government been instituted at all? Because the
passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and
justice without constraint”. Alexander Hamilton
“The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and
better than the heavy hand of government” . Mitt Romney
“Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit
spending should be viewed as a tax on future
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generations, and politicians who create deficits should be
exposed as tax hikers”. Ron Paul
“Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big
appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at theother”. Ronald Reagan
“It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook
often groans more loudly than an empty stomach”.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“In the general course of human nature, A power over a
man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will”.
Alexander Hamilton
"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot
appear to them except in the form of bread." - Mahatma
Gandhi (1869-1948)
“It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession.
I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the
first”. Ronald Reagan
“Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a
bad reputation” . Henry A. Kissinger
Dearest - the market competition that we are
witnessing today is like an athletic race: some citizens, well
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fed and accessing health and education systems are far
ahead; most of the others are left unjustly behind: the fair
and decent minimum that can be done is to put them all
on the same line of departure, giving equal
opportunities at the beginning.
Workers need to eat and to have access to health and
education systems, so that their labor does not get destroyed
– it does not make sense to embed this in their salary,
because the hunger of people is not a market variable,
but a biological need
“Excessive inequality is corrosive to growth; it is corrosive to
society. I believe that the economics profession and the
policy community have downplayed inequality for too
long.” Christine Lagarde, International Monetary Fund
managing director
"Criminality, for example, can be reduced basically in
two ways: with preventive investment in education or with
the reinforcement of police surveillance on the streets. I
estimate that the option for education costs about a
tenth of the expenses with security."
"Each dollar spent on the education of a person means that
they will produce something like 10 cents more per year along
their whole life. There is no better investment." - JamesHeckman, Nobel Prize winner in Economy in the year 2000
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“A State divided into a small number of rich and a large
number of poor will always develop a government
manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities
represented by their property.” – Harold Laski - British
political theorist (1893-1950)
“There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as
protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit
government. Government is the enemy of liberty.
Government should be very restrained”. Ron Paul
"When you notice that, in order to produce, you
must be authorized by someone who produces
nothing; when you confirm that money flows to
those who negotiate with favor, not withgoods; when you notice that many get rich with
bribery and influence, more than with work, and that the
laws do not protect us from them, but, on the contrary, it is
them who are protected from us; when you find that
corruption is rewarded and that honesty becomes self-
sacrifice; then you can say, with no fear of error, that your
society is doomed." Alissa Rosenbaum (Ayn Rand) -
1905-1982
“It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing
mankind today can be solved with means and methods which
were applied or seemed to work in the past”. Mikhail
Gorbachov
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“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by
legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one
person receives without working for, another person
must work for without receiving. The government
cannot give to anybody anything that the
government does not first take from somebody else.
When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to
work because the other half is going to take care of them, and
when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work
because somebody else is going to get what they work for,
that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You
cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.” Adrian Rogers,
1931
Job-generation is not a task for the State, which
produces only lesser jobs. It is private initiative thatcreates productive employment.
"We will practice charity when we could not
impose justice". Because it is not charity that we need.
Justice reaches the causes of the problem; charity
mitigates its effects” Victor Hugo
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With Smith I learned the importance of the
"invisible hand", that today is called market – individualsacting on their own interests – and it is always the individual
interest that prevails – without governmental interference –
as a superior model for human coexistence.
I have learned from Marx that the workforce
must not suffer wear – "The worker sells his labor to
keep it unscathed, except for the natural wear, but not to
have it destroyed."
I Learned with Joan Robinson that the marketeconomy makes what is profitable and not what is
needed
I Learned with Mises and Hayek that nothing
beats the power of the spontaneous organization of the
market price mechanisms.
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“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by
skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious
realities. We need men who can dream of things that never
were”. John F. Kennedy
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives
on. John F. Kennedy
“The best road to progress is freedom's road” . - John F.
Kennedy
But in a new social pact where nutrition, health and
education became private responsibilities in the
productive process, the Government would
proportionately reduce taxation and its interference in
the economy. Instead of transferring resources from rich to
poor, society would provide equal opportunities for nutrition,
health and education. This is not philanthropy, but a new
concept of human labor as a transformation process of human energy into physical or intellectual power. It
will replace the changing logic of ideas – ideology – with the
invariable logic of life - biology
The complete liberation of prices and salaries will result,
inexorably, in full productive employment. Only with full
employment we will do without State supervision – the
invisible hand acts inexorably!!! Certainly, businessmen willnot act philanthropically only: full productive
employment will be the guarantor of this agreement of
wills – the dynamics of the economy will lead to full
employment, where government supervision will no longer be
required
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“The happiness of society is the end of government” . John
Adams
The comments below are from the experienced,
realist and competent american thinker Gary North, who also
believes that Keynesianism keeps dominating the
political scene by default, for lack of an alternative.
“Without hope of deliverance, the voters lose confidence in
politics as a means of healing. This is the central religion
of our era. This trust is waning. The Keynesian system
holds on power by default. There is no widely shared faith
in what can be substituted and how” .
“Austrians have simple solutions: "Let the free market alone."
"Less government is better." "Lower taxes increase liberty.""Trust gold, not bankers." These were basic themes in the late
18th century. They were basic themes of classical liberalism in
the 19th century. They are not untried concepts. They
made the West rich when they were honored”
“The only way we can make it better is to reduce the powerand privilege of the groups, and this means passing lawsagainst existing laws. This means replacing centralizedplanning, in its various forms, with the planningimposed by the free market”
“There is no simple solution to this, other than to persuadepeople that when a crisis occurs, the proper response isto shrink the government, not expand it. People generally
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do not want to hear this in a crisis. But if the crisis is basedon the fact that the government has run out of sound money,they are going to have to listen to it” .
“The tools of victory which previous leaders have invoked tosolve the problem, namely, a strengthening of the centralgovernment, an increase of taxation, and a forced lowering of interest rates, are exactly the policies that got us into theproblem we are in. So, the proposed reforms are simplymore of the same” .
So far - Gary North
"All truths go through three stages. First they are
ridiculed. Secondly, they face violent opposition.
Finally, they are accepted as evident" - Arthur
Schopenhauer (1788-1860), - german philosopher
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the
freedom of thought which they avoid." - Soren AabyeKierkegaard (1813-1855)
"the purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of
ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn
how to avoid being deceived by economists." Joan
Robinson
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not
enough; we must do” – Goethe
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Force is the weapon of the incompetent, whereas intelligence
is the instrument of the sensible. Force will never transform
anything that intelligence cannot transform.
“The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who
maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis”.
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
I would feel glad if these thoughts lead readers at least
to the diagnosis of the trouble we are in – recognizing
mistakes is a decisive step to search for solutions.
1. the free market, though highly desirable, is
impossible to be practiced without a new social pact
2. Offering equal opportunities for nutrition, health care
and education is a “sine qua non” condition to make
possible the market economy – these goods and services
are attached to survival and progress, do not depend onhuman will, are non- cumulative and are interdependent.
3. There is no conflict between the market economy and equal
opportunities – on the contrary, it is only with equal
opportunities that the free market can operate
completely
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“Those who clearly recognize the voice of their
own conscience normally recognize the voice of justiceas well”. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the
stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt." -
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human
stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert
Einstein (1879-1955)
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has
endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us
to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr.
(1929-1968)
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has
exceeded our humanity." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Sometimes it is not enough that we do our best; we
must do what is required." - Sir Winston Churchill
(1874-1965)
“I’m a lover of my own liberty, and so I would donothing to restrict yours.” Mahatma Gandhi - (1869-1948)
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“The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice'within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courageto be in such a hopeless minority.” - Mahatma Gandhi -
(1869-1948)Let us celebrate this year with much hope and faith in theendless possibilities that humans have, to find in the futuregenerations the solution to our many problems. Each childcoming to this world is a flame of hope and renewal.Have always in mind these teaching from Thomas Aquinas:
“The first step to wisdom is humility”.
“For those who have faith, no explanation is necessary.For those without faith, no explanation is possible.”
, the link below is food for the spirit: enjoy it
André Rieu - Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (Mary ... - YouTube
Best wishes,
Ronaldo Campos Carneiro – jan/2013
RI 4530 DG – 2008-9 – Brasilia – DF - Brasil
http://rcarneiro4.blogspot.com.br
De: Urs Herzog [mailto:[email protected]]Enviada: domingo, 3 de fevereiro de 2013 08:52Para: [email protected]
Assunto: AW: Happy 2013 - rotarian reflections
Dear Rotarian Ronaldo Carneiro
What an worthful collection of thoughts and ideas from humanbeings who never gave up und saw that everybody could beable in following a peaceful way of life.
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Best regards
PDG Urs Herzog
DRFC D 1980
De: Richard Fisher [mailto:[email protected]]Enviada: domingo, 3 de fevereiro de 2013 11:03Para: 'Ronaldo Carneiro'Assunto: RE: Happy 2013 - Rotarian reflections
Good day Ronaldo
Many thanks for your letter with all its quotations. Much food
for thought. Indeed, we have many challenges to consider in
our Rotary world!
Kind regards
Richard
District Governor 2007-08 D9270 South AfricaDe: Eric Adamson [mailto:[email protected]]Enviada: segunda-feira, 4 de fevereiro de 2013 15:13Para: 'Ronaldo Carneiro'Assunto: RE: Happy 2013 - rotarian reflections
Thank you, Ronaldo, for these quotes and thoughts…very
interesting and often inspiring..
Eric E. AdamsonPast R.I. Vice President, 2009-1019 Walnut DriveFront Royal, Virginia 22630
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De: Bob Scott [mailto:[email protected]]Enviada: segunda-feira, 4 de fevereiro de 2013 14:12Para: 'Ronaldo Carneiro'Assunto: RE: Happy 2013 - rotarian reflections
Thank you for sending me these many quotes
Bob
De: Petr Jan Pajas [mailto:[email protected]]
Enviada: segunda-feira, 4 de fevereiro de 2013 13:40
Para: Ronaldo Carneiro
Assunto: Re: Happy 2013 - rotarian reflections
Dear PDG Ronaldo Carneiro,
tahnk you for a lot of citations, which are inspiring.
Please notice a change in my e-mails
All the best
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Petr Jan Pajas
PDG 2007-8
D2240
RC Praha City
mobile: +420 603 450 802
Raffaele Pallotta [email protected] 4/2/2013
Dear Ronaldo,Thank you for your letter and the valuable quotations.We make Rotary a concrete part of our lives for others.Yours sincerelyRaffaele Pallotta of Acquapendente (RIPD)
De: Walter Müller [mailto:[email protected]]Enviada em: sábado, 9 de fevereiro de 2013 08:48Para: 'Ronaldo Carneiro'Assunto: AW: Happy 2013 - rotarian reflections
Dear Ronaldo
Thank you fort he interesting summary of your favored
people, who did excellent contributions to mankind. Andre
Rieux is an outstanding personality, too. His contributions are
in a other manner, than those people citated in your text.
Rieux is giving some hope and cheerfulness to everybody,
That is very necessary as well.
Best wishes from Switzerland,
Walter
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Walter MüllerGerberacherweg 218820 WädenswilTel. 044 680 46 71
De: Charles Keller [mailto:[email protected]]Enviada em: quarta-feira, 13 de fevereiro de 2013 12:37Para: Ronaldo CarneiroAssunto: RE: Happy 2013 - rotarian reflections
Ronaldo…Thank you for your thoughtful message. It causes
me to exercise my brain, and my conscience… Charles C.
Keller, PPRIP 1987-8
De: Jerry Hall [mailto:[email protected]]Enviada em: quarta-feira, 13 de fevereiro de 2013 10:56Para: 'Ronaldo Carneiro'Assunto: RE: Happy 2013 - new year reflections
Dear Ronaldo:
We have received your well wishes from Christmas and are
honored that you remember us. Knowing you now have
grandchildren makes Tasha and I happy and a bit
envious. Our son is now married but since he and his wife
were married when they were in their mid-forties they have
chosen not to have children. We enjoy our new daughter-in-
law very much – she is a school teacher and a nice woman sowe are understandably happy for our son.
We are well and enjoying life at home. I am retired but still
very active serving on local commissions as a volunteer. I
also do a lot of Rotary work and am now working on a project
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in Africa…we have visited Uganda once and likely will do so
again as part of the current project.
I am not quite the political student you are but enjoyed
reading your quotes and observations in your message whenwe received it weeks ago. Government and the economy are
still in turmoil here in the US as you know and our national
congressional officials have made governing very
difficult. Our state has had more than its share of difficulty
with the economy – home values have plummeted, there are
many without jobs and much of what people took for granted
in the past are now things that may never return to their
former state or condition. Since I am retired the impact onour lives is not as significant as others so we are very
thankful.
We think about you often and whenever we reminisce about
our friends in Brazil you are always in our thoughts. I hope
someday we will be together again. We enjoyed your
company and Tasha still makes some of the microwave dishes
she learned from Ivani.Please give our best wishes to Erica and congratulate her on
her family…we would like to see the children some day!
Love from Reno,
Jerry and Tasha
De: Adam Smith Institute [mailto:[email protected]]
Enviada em: quinta-feira, 14 de fevereiro de 2013 09:01Para: ronaldo carneiroAssunto: Re: Contact us enquiry : ronaldo carneiro
Thank you for your list of quotes. An inspiring collectionindeed!
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Best wishes,ASI
De: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]Enviada em: quinta-feira, 14 de fevereiro de 2013 04:21Para: Ronaldo CarneiroAssunto: Re: Happy 2013 - new year reflections
Hello Sir Ronaldo,Thank you for sending me your research. It is a goodcollection of profound philosophcal thoughts about socialismnd capitalism, the extremes of economic regulation.Somewhere in the middle we hope to find a happy balancewhich will enhance the lives of the poor.My kind regards and greetings for the new year!Wilfredo Segovia
De: Joachim Reuter [mailto:[email protected]]Enviada em: sexta-feira, 15 de fevereiro de 2013 13:48Para: 'Ronaldo Carneiro'Assunto: AW: Happy 2013 - new year reflections
Dear Ronaldo,
Very happy New Year to you! And thank you for the
reflections. But let us begin with and within ourself.
Kindest regards,
Joachim
De: guy chaumont [mailto:[email protected]]
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Para: Ronaldo Carneiro
Assunto: your letter 14th february 2013
Dear Ronaldo Carneiro,
I thank you very much for your letter with a lot of
celebrated men citations. Now i could end my speech with a
maxim from your letter!
Kind regards
Guy Chaumont PDG D1700
De: RK Saboo [mailto:[email protected]]
Enviada: segunda-feira, 4 de março de 2013 02:12
Para: 'Ronaldo Carneiro'
Assunto: Thanks
Dear friend Ronaldo,
I am very happy to receive the greetings you had sent earlier
in which you had brought the collection of thoughts
of different people from different lands. All the quotations
probably had their relevance in the particular circumstances,
time and situations. Some of them are valid even today. May
be most of them are, and this treasure of wisdom reflects the
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superior thinking of men and women who have made this
world a better place.
We have to choose these thoughts depending upon our own
disposition and whatever gems we are able to
pick. That will make our lives blessed.
I, therefore, thank you for your very meaningful greetings.
Warm regards,
Raja
De: Willy Segovia [mailto:[email protected]]
Enviada: quarta-feira, 6 de março de 2013 12:39
Para: Ronaldo Carneiro
Assunto: Re: Happy 2013 - new year reflections
Hello Sir Ronaldo,
Thank you very much for sharing with me your recent
research and studies of great thoughts. They are indeed
very refreshing and a timely reminder about our work as
Rotarians. My kind regards and best wishes.
Wilfredo Segovia
De: Ronaldo Carneiro [mailto:[email protected]]
Enviada: sábado, 16 de março de 2013 18:53
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Para: 'Sergio Tripi'
Assunto: Ideas that worked along the time....
Dearest Sergio – what a magnificent human experience!!!!
Thank you for sharing your book - giving and receiving - or
makers and takers as big discussion on last US presidential
race among democrats and republicans – I really believe that
takers only need opportunities, not support, to become
makers. Infant humanity will not cross the maturity line with
support but with opportunities
“While hunger governs peace cannot prevail” - absolutely true– With your permission, let me use that fantastic quote. Also
sacrifice as make sacred – living and learning!!!
Is it dreaming with open eyes? Yes. I don´t believe in
conciousness revolution. Human beings are not evolving from
selfishness to philanthropy or to focus in community instead
of individual. Since prophet Maome – 4000 years ago,
religious system are trying to change human being with poorresults. So, all my focus is that human being was, is and will
be selfishness, my proposal is to change the community rules
in order to put individual selfishness working to community.
Best regards. Ron Carneiro
De: Sergio Tripi [mailto:[email protected]]
Enviada: sábado, 16 de março de 2013 08:02
Para: Ronaldo Carneiro
Assunto: Re: Ideas that worked along the time....
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Dear Ronaldo Carneiro,
Thank you very much for this precious collection of valuable
thinking, which I will keep with me in the days to come as one
of the meaningful references to bear in mind during these
times.
Let me reciprocate by offering you to read the chapter
“Reflections on seven keys to interpretation” that you will find
as of page 173 of my book “Knowing tow to give and how to
receive” posted here:
http://www.goodnewsagency.org/m/books/KNOWING.pdf
Most cordially,
Sergio TripiPS If you do not mind, I will include the quotaton below in my
cover letter to Rotarians with Good News Agency.
De: Frank Devlyn [mailto:[email protected]]Enviada: segunda-feira, 15 de abril de 2013 11:53Para: 'Ronaldo Carneiro'Assunto: Congratulations for your .....Happy 2013 - rotarianreflections
Dear Ronaldo:
Let me congratulate you for Creating Awareness to find ways
To Take Action by giving us some thought provoking quotes
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from highly respected world personalities. I agree with many
that you mention and I do not with others but All of Them
Make Me Think and Rethink. I might suggest your adding the
wisdom of Our Four Way Test by Herbert Taylor.
I am going to share your collection of quotes with others as
they also show that most of them serve to give life to the
Rotary Presidential Theme of my year as the President of
Rotary International in 2000 / 2001…
Create Awareness - Take Action!
They also give life to the Presidential Themes of other
Past Presidents of Rotary International.
Viva Rotary!
Thank you for André Rieu - Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious(Mary ... - YouTube
Hope to see you in Lisbon.
Your Amigo in Mexico City,
Frank Devlyn
Past President of Rotary International 2000 / 2001
www.FrankDevlyn.org
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