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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

rcarneiro4@gmail.com

http://rcarneiro4.blogspot.com.br

De: Urs Herzog [mailto:muu.herzog@bluewin.ch]Enviada: domingo, 3 de fevereiro de 2013 08:52Para: rcarneiro4@gmail.com

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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:iam@durbs.com]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:eadamson@servtitle.com]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:bobscott@eagle.ca]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:petr.pajas@pasos.org]

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

petr.pajas@rotary2240.org

Raffaele Pallotta paraffae@gmail.com 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:wmueller@solnet.ch]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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De: Charles Keller [mailto:Charles.Keller@PeacockKeller.Com]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:jhallreno@sbcglobal.net]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:info@adamsmith.org]

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: wls@pldtdsl.net [mailto:wls@pldtdsl.net]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:joachimreuter@arcor.de]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:guy.chaumont@sfr.fr]

Enviada em: sexta-feira, 22 de fevereiro de 2013 13:10

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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:rksaboo@kddl.com]

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:wls@segoviagroup.com]

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:rcarneiro4@gmail.com]

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:sergiotripi@gmail.com]

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:devlynf@devlyn.com.mx]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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