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É ativamente que ele vai estabelecer laços “lógicos” entre alguns deles, que vai considerar como efeitos; em alguns outros, ele vai tentar descobrir causas.
Luc Ferry • Aprender a viver: Filosofia para os novos tempos (Portuguese Edition)
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That which was experimental in our plan of government was the question whether democratic rule could be so organized and conducted that it would not degenerate into license and result in the tyranny of absolutism, without saving to the people the power so often found necessary of repressing or destroying their enemy, when he was found in the person
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of opposing the moral authority of the minority to the physical power which domineers over it. Thus a dangerous expedient is used to obviate a still more formidable danger. The omnipotence
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Memorias en conflicto: Aspectos de la violencia política contemporánea (Spanish Edition)
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O Estado empreendedor: Desmascarando o mito do setor público vs. setor privado (Portuguese Edition)
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Perhaps any of the great Eurasian states would have enjoyed a similar success: Tamerlane would have made short work of Montezuma. It was the Occident’s good fortune that its geographical position – closest to the Caribbean antechamber of the pre-Columbian empires – gave it a decisive lead in the acquisition of new lands in the Outer World.
John Darwin • After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
Final Solutions: Mass Killing and Genocide in the 20th Century (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
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Nervioso, descontrolado, prendió el motor. En ese instante estalló la bomba. En las radios de la tarde y los diarios del día siguiente, en esos días finales de marzo de 1963, poco antes del golpe que depuso al general Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes y llevó al gobierno a Enrique Peralta Azurdia, se dio la noticia de un atentado terrorista que había causado
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