— Voltaire
— Will Durant It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. The present is merely the past rolled up and concentrated in this second of time. You, too, are your past; often your face is your autobiography; you are what …
— Bill Bonner History Is Mostly Bunk Yes, we’re serious. History only tells part of the story. And as Henry Ford put it, it is mostly “bunk.” A person who is ignorant of history knows nothing. But at least he is aware that his ignorance is unblemished by phony knowledge. The person who knows something, …
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save …
— Richard Maybury We have 21st century minds, but our brains and bodies are from the Paleolithic. That’s when humans became humans. Compared to the condition of our ancestors, we of the modern unnatural world are fantastically hale and hearty. But — my key point — today’s male is walking around with the amount of testosterone necessary to …