Quote of the day
I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
Rubem Alves

Born: September 15, 1933
Died: July 19, 2014 (aged 80)
Bio: Rubem Azevedo Alves was a Brazilian theologian, philosopher, educator, writer and psychoanalyst. Alves was one of the founders of liberation theology.
Known for:
- I believe in the resurrection of the body (1982)
- The poet, the warrior, the prophet (1990)
- Protestantism and repression (1985)
- Transparencies of Eternity