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Certainly, by the last decade of the [20th] century, some lessons had plainly been learned. But it was not yet clear whether the underlying evils which had made possible its catastrophic failures and tragedies—the rise of moral relativism, the decline … Continue reading
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Here’s one the paleo diet advocates will like. The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases. —Edward Jenner (1749-1823), of smallpox vaccination … Continue reading
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The outstanding event of modern times was the failure of religious belief to disappear. For many millions, especially in the advanced nations, religion ceased to play much or any part in their lives, and the ways in which the vacuum … Continue reading
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It was Jean-Jacques Rousseau who had first announced that human beings could be transformed for the better by the political process, and that the agency of change, the creator of what he termed the “new man”, would be the state, … Continue reading
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A new scientific truth is not usually presented in a way to convince its opponents. Rather, they die off, and a rising generation is familiarized with the truth from the start. —Max Planck
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The more books one reads, the stupider one becomes. —Mao Tse-Tung, Chinese communist dictator with a lifelong hatred of formal education, as quoted in “Modern Times” by Paul Johnson
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Health care insurance doesn’t mean access to medical care any more than car insurance means you have access to a car. -WhiteCoat’s Call Room, October 6, 2010
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[U.S. President Warren G.] Harding inherited an absentee presidency and one of the sharpest recessions in American history. By July 1921 it was all over and the economy was booming again. Harding had done nothing except cut government expenditure…. Paul … Continue reading
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“The Declaration of Independence—the “father of all moral principle” in our politics, as Lincoln called it—defines the purpose of government in distinctly limited terms: “To secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent … Continue reading
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Being fat is hard… Losing weight is hard… Maintaining weight loss is hard… Choose your hard. I got this from Magicsmom at the Low Carb Friends message board, but she didn’t know the source. Do you? Steve Parker, M.D.
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