Saturday 7 September 2024

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"Walking is man's best medicine." Hippocrates

"Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man." The Reverend Dr Gaster in Thomas Love Peacock's Headlong Hall

"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."  A.A. Milne


“The biggest misfortune in human history is the invention of the combustion engine. Cars and aeroplanes diminish the world, rob it of all its diversity. Young men who meet me want to know how they could do what I've done. But all they can be is tourists now.” Explorer and writer Sir Wilfred Thesiger in1999 speaking to the Washington Post, quoted by Ned Donovan

"The supposed 'far right' charge at the police with wheelie bins and then fall over. The actual far left take over the Labour and Tory Parties, the schools, the police, the churches, the law, the media and the civil service." Peter Hitchens

"Gerald Grosvenor, the 6th Duke of Westminster, when asked by a journalist what advice he’d give to a young entrepreneur hoping to become rich, gave the helpful suggestion: ‘make sure they have an ancestor who was a very good friend of William the Conqueror’." Ed West

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  1. “I am a “conspiracy theorist.” I believe men and women of wealth and power conspire.

    If you don’t think so, then you are what is called “an idiot.”

    If you believe stuff but fear the label, you are what is called “a coward.”

    Dave Collum

    There are no countries hostile to Russia, there are hostile elites.
    VV Putin
    https://tass.com/politics/1836993

    Our political class does not govern. It entertains. It plays its assigned role in our fictitious democracy, howling with outrage to constituents and selling them out.
    Chris Hedges
    https://x.com/ChrisLynnHedges/status/1834686409883762974

    “It says here in this history book that, luckily, the good guys have won every single time. What are the odds?”
    Norm MacDonald

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