The Sun also rises in the East
Nothing is certain in this world except death, taxes, and the absolute certainty that when things seem to be going well, somewhere on the planet, religion will bugger it up.
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History
With muffled drum
I wasn’t fond of Notre Dame as a building – give me Chartres any day – but so sad to see all that history burning savagely. But seriously, grown men worked there who believed they had the “Crown of thorns”?
Photographic memories
The young people, whose photos appear in family albums, somehow turn into old people looking wistfully at those photos.
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Fox in the hen house
Murdoch’s strategy ensures that millions of ignorant fools are happy, nay, delighted, to be led by ignorant fools.
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Unfortunately, perhaps
In deciding which memories to keep and which to discard the mind has a mind of its own.
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Great-great-great….
It is somehow a comfort to me to know that my ancestry goes back not two hundred years but two billion. How could it not be?
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Half time
Species that hibernate waste half of their potential. Homo sapiens achieves the same effect by misogyny.