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“if there was any power in the 1930s and 1940s that exemplified the Fascist slogan of the ‘triumph of will’ over material circumstances it was not Nazi Germany, or Fascist Italy, but Stalin’s Marxist dictatorship.”
― The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
― The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
“The first fossil with a definite and undisputed claim to human ancestorhood is Homo erectus,42 for some time a contemporary of these later upright apes. Erectus appeared before 1.8 MYA”
― Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame
― Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame
“The openness of Athens created by the democracy, he had seen, threatened to destabilize the democracy itself.”
― Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind
― Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind
“the cryosphere is not melting at an enhanced rate; sea-level rise is not accelerating; no systematic changes have been documented in evaporation or rainfall or in the magnitude or intensity of extreme meteorological events; and an increased release of methane into the atmosphere from permafrost or sub-seabed gas hydrates is unlikely. T”
― Climate Change: The Facts
― Climate Change: The Facts
“Furthermore, as if forgetting the existence of the Soviet “Evil Empire”, she practically called for the various peoples of the USSR to stay “loyal to the Soviet Union as a commonwealth of nations”, to be content with a certain degree of cultural and religious autonomy, like the various tribes in Nigeria. And this was said at the time of the offensive against the sovereignty of the Baltic republics, whose absorption into the USSR was never acknowledged by Britain or the USA. Alas, Thatcher was no exception. Even Ronald Reagan, President of the USA, a man for whom the very name Lenin was always anathema, did not fail to praise Gorbachev for his “return to the paths of Lenin.” This was also said in a radio address transmitted to the USSR. As for his successor, George Bush and his Secretary of State Jim Baker, they outdid everyone, opposing the inevitable disintegration of the USSR until the very last day. “Yes, I think I can trust Gorbachev,”—said George Bush to Time magazine357 just when Gorbachev was beginning to lose control and was tangled hopelessly in his own lies—“I looked him in the eye, I appraised him. He was very determined. Yet there was a twinkle. He is a guy quite sure of what he is doing. He has got a political feel.”
― Judgment in Moscow: Soviet Crimes and Western Complicity
― Judgment in Moscow: Soviet Crimes and Western Complicity
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