whenever you ask a question, the first response you get is usually not the answer—it’s just the first response,”
“There are people who think death a fate worse than boredom.”
― The Last Samurai
― The Last Samurai
“With cooking, plants and animals became the raw materials for food, not food itself.”
― Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History
― Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History
“In the United States, rejuvenation fever exploded in the 1920s, when a patent-medicine salesman named John Brinkley popularized an operation that basically involved implanting fresh goat testicles into the scrota of worn-out middle-aged men.”
― Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever [or Die Trying]
― Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever [or Die Trying]
“On 24 August 1572, French Catholics who stressed the importance of good deeds attacked communities of French Protestants who highlighted God’s love for humankind.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Truth must evolve’—how very convenient for liars.”
― The Accursed
― The Accursed
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