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The same Boswell face stared out from the portraits of his Scottish forebears, slaveholders and gentlemen farmers who had been chased out of Georgia by the boll weevil in the 1920s and grafted a piece of their cotton plantation onto this
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“The introduction of Bitcoin, as a currency native to the Internet superseding national borders and outside the realm of governmental control, offers an intriguing possibility for the emergence of a new international monetary system, to be analyzed in Chapter 9.”
― The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
― The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
“Getting here had become part of what being here meant.”
― Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place
― Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place
“Every woman has a well stocked arsenal of anger potentially useful against those oppressions, personal and institutional, which brought that anger into being. Focused with precision it can become a powerful source of energy serving progress and change.”
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“Societies that robbed humans of what they had rightfully earned by the sweat of their brows paid a steep price for this theft. They destroyed the individual’s incentive to work, undermined the general prosperity, and thereby doomed themselves to poverty and famine.”
― The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution
― The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution
“We have, seemingly, jumped over the simplest expression of depression. Cold from the environment will reduce cellular activity. The hypothalamus reacts with shivering and fever to return the organism to health. If the organism does not adequately respond, there will be “internal cold” or depression. If it gets stuck in the shivering phase there will be tissue constriction. If it gets stuck in the fever stage there will be tissue irritation. Accordingly, a chill or cold from the environment needs to be treated according to the stage it is moving through or the tissue state where it gets stuck. The”
― The Practice of Traditional Western Herbalism: Basic Doctrine, Energetics, and Classification
― The Practice of Traditional Western Herbalism: Basic Doctrine, Energetics, and Classification
Remy’s 2025 Year in Books
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