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The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same. ”
If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet. ”
We hear much of Bolshevism, much of labor unrest; at times, we hear the word 'revolution.' But these are but contagious diseases in the body of civilization, and I believe that the antitoxins of good cheer, mutual confidence, fairness and justice will ultimately cure these ills and make the world healthy and strong again. ”
The Obama years will be remembered as a cultural - and legal - tipping point for equality for all people who do not identify as strictly heterosexual, arguably the civil rights movement of our times. The president signed the bill repealing 'don't ask, don't tell.' The Defense of Marriage Act was struck down by the Supreme Court. ”
One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible. ”
That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the older alluvium of European valleys, I confidently expect. ”
So far, therefore, as we can draw safe conclusions from a single specimen, there has been no marked change of race in the human population of Switzerland during the periods above considered. ”
No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany. ”
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend. ”
The U.N. is worse than disaster. The U.N. creates conflicts. Look at the disgraceful U.N. Human Rights Council: It transmits norms which are harmful, anti-liberty and anti-Semitic, among other things. The world would be better off in its absence. ”