You can’t tax all thought by making it nice.

–Eric Weinstein

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If anyone can show me, and prove to me, that I am wrong in thought or deed, I will gladly change. I seek the truth, which never yet hurt anybody. It is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance which does harm.

-Marcus Aurelius

History is a slaughter bench, upon which the happiness of nations, the wisdom of states, and the virtues of individuals are sacrificed

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel “Paraphrased”

Science hasn’t yet figured out how to solve obesity.

-USA Today 08/2022

A Hideous Hermaphroditical Character which has neither the Force and Firmness of a Man, Not the Gentleness and Sensibility of a Woman

-Written by Thomas Jefferson about John Adams who paid journalist James Thomson Callender to publish it

General Jackson’s mother was a common prostitute, brought to this country by the British soldiers! She afterwards married a mulatto man, with whom she had several children, of which number General Jackson is one!

-The Cincinnati Gazette 1828 on General Jackson

To be turned out by the Pimp of the White House

-Congressman Kenneth Rayner on President Franklin Pierce

Bastard Brat of a Scotch Peddler

-John Adams on Alexander Hamilton

Hatchet-Faced Nutmeg Dealer

-Stephen Douglas on Abraham Lincoln

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Ersatz

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