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The truth, indeed, is out—but the ears to hear it and the minds to learn from it seem to have been atrophied by a cultivated ignorance and a nearly total loss of critical insight.


Murray Bookchin


#history #truth #wikileaks #anarchism

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.


Karl Marx


#first #history #history repeats itself #itself #repeats

No matter what historians claimed, BC really stood for "Before Coffee.


Cherise Sinclair


#coffee #master-of-the-mountain #rewriting-history #coffee

Pseudoscience often relies on a witches' brew of scientific terms (e.g. "wavelength," "energy fields," "vibrations") half-baked into simplistic metaphors that do not correspond with testable reality. In some cases, pseudoscience simply relies on language that is deliberately vague and poorly defined to deceive. While outright lunacy is almost always easy to spot, the most dangerous of pseudoscientific meanderings are those filled with scientific terminology that, even for experts, can initially be daunting and impressive. Upon dissection, however, the terminology is invariably found to be misused, or used in a context far from accepted understanding. However convincing and artful, however much we may even wish the conclusions to be true, monuments built in such shifting sands cannot withstand the inevitable tests of time.


K. Lee Lerner


#politics #pseudoscience #science #art

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.


Albert Einstein


#guilt #history #war #destruction

The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.


Lemony Snicket


#history #library #tears #tears

In terms of size, mammals are an anomaly, as the vast majority of the world's existing species are snail-sized or smaller. It's almost as if, regardless of your kingdom, the smaller your size & the earlier your place on the tree of life, the more critical is your niche on Earth: snails & worms create soil, & blue-green algae create oxygen; mammals seem comparatively dispensable, the result of the random path of evolution over a luxurious amount of time.


Elisabeth Tova Bailey


#natural-history #non-fiction #life

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.


Benjamin Disraeli


#history #literature #politics #defeat

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.


Rudyard Kipling


#form #history #never #stories #taught

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?


Thomas Sowell


#politicians






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