Tim Clouse

“But because he belonged to the nineteenth century and to a non-military nation and class, he could not grasp the tremendous strength of the old world which was symbolised in his mind by fox-hunting Tories. He was, and still is, quite incapable of understanding that nationalism, religious bigotry and feudal loyalty are far more powerful forces than what he himself would describe as sanity.”
― George Orwell, Collections of George Orwell Essays

“it had gradually ascended through different degrees of diminishing harmfulness, until it had attained total uselessness, which was the nearest approach to perfection such a system could know.”
― Norman Friedman, Naval Firepower: Battleship Guns and Gunnery in the Dreadnought Era

“There’s no such thing as alternative medicine; if it works, it’s just called medicine.”
― Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

“When I say I'll learn {footnote ['Teach' is not in the river vocabulary.]} a man the river, I mean it. And you can depend on it, I'll learn him or kill him.”
― Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi