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“Lenin’s vision of labor camps as a special form of punishment for a particular sort of bourgeois “enemy” sat well with his other beliefs about crime and criminals. On the one hand, the first Soviet leader felt ambivalent about the jailing and punishment of traditional criminals—thieves, pickpockets, murderers—whom he perceived as potential allies.”
― Anne Applebaum, Gulag: A History

“Well . . . I spent the night once with a woman who was one of those—what do you call them?—congenital liars. Every single thing she told me about herself was untrue. And if I caught her in some contradiction or some obvious mistake, she would simply replace that untruth with another untruth. There was no bottom to it. It went on all night. Lies upon lies upon lies. And what I found was that, by the time morning came, a strange thing had happened to me.” “You began to believe her.” “Of course. I just began to accept whatever she said. Because I’m not insane. Only an insane person can live as if everything he hears is a lie.”
― Andrew Klavan, A Strange Habit of Mind

“Rather than invest scarce world resources in a quixotic campaign based on politicized and unreliable science, world leaders would do well to turn their attention to the real problems their people and their planet face.”
― Craig D. Idso, Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming: The NIPCC Report on Scientific Consensus

“The secret of the Climate Miracle is nature controls the climate. Human emissions do not overpower the natural forces that drive an ever-changing climate.”
― Ed Berry, Climate Miracle: There is no climate crisis Nature controls climate