Jack R. Noel

“Italians began to refer to the frequent rotations of power between different groups as a revolutio, from the Latin “revolvere,” to cycle or revolve.”
― Jack A. Goldstone, Revolutions: A Very Short Introduction

“If the person was out of the room, the octopus would pull off the magnet on the inside of the tank which, with another magnet on the outside of the tank, held a glass-cleaning tool in place. The outside magnet would then crash loudly to the ground, summoning the human much as one might call a butler by ringing a servant’s bell. Ceph keeper Nancy King”
― Sy Montgomery, The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

“The answer is that people, especially religious leaders, deem pornography bad because it depicts women having sex with multiple men with whom they don’t have an emotional connection or having a willingness to want to have sex, which goes against the evolved mating strategies of women. Furthermore, they do this on a recurring basis for monetary gain.”
― Dave Pounder, Obscene Thoughts: A Pornographer's Perspective on Sex, Love, and Dating

“Trump’s connection to Peale, then, not only informs the Comey-Niebuhr/Trump-Peale divide, but also throws into relief the larger national cleavage between Global Elites and the America First “Deplorables.” This is another old war in America”
― Diana West, The Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy