The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
It's in our genes, we were built to wander.
There were real reasons that you were attracted to somebody originally. The brain doesn't pick willy-nilly. Unless you part ways hating each other for some reason, that mechanism could get triggered again. You can literally fall in love again.
In general, men are wired to notice obvious signs that convey interest in mating - a warm smile, for example - and ignore other subtleties, like if your lipstick is faded.
Men and women are like two feet; they can help each other get ahead.
Romantic love is not an emotion. . . . It's a drive. It comes from the motor of the mind, the wanting part of the mind, the craving part of the mind.
Mothers really were not built to raise babies not only by themselves, but with only a partner. For millions of years, a woman had much more than just her husband to help rear her young. . . This whole idea of 'it takes a village to raise a child' is exactly how we're supposed to live.
Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.
Trust must be built day by day. It calls for consistency.
My whole thing is, if you love me, then love me. If you don't, then believe what you hear and run with that.
David Irving has consistenly applied an evidential double standard, demanding absolute documentary proof to convict the Germans (as when he sought to show that Hitler was not responsible for the Holocaust), while relying on circumstantial evidence to condemn the British (as in his account of the Allied bombing of Dresden).