I still think, despite everything, that the US is very unlikely to attack Iran. It could be a huge catastrophe; nobody knows what the consequences would be. I imagine that only an administration that's really desperate would resort to that.
Nobody tells you what you can and can't do.
But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power?
The Bible, as we know it today, was collated by the pagan Roman Emperor Constantine the Great
Proof. . . was a conclusion built on a pyramid of facts, a broad base of accepted information on which more specific assertions were made.
Madness breeds madness.
Chaos was the natural law of the universe. Indifference was the engine of entropy. Man's apathy was the fertile ground in which the dark spirits tended their seeds.
The service at the Imperial (Tokyo) is the finest I've encountered anywhere. There was a button next to my bed marked ROOM SERVICE - and a maid to press it for me.
She never said, "No, don't buy that trash," or "Pick a real book. " She knew they were all real books. This is how great a librarian she was. And how great a mom.
Herodotus is not more indisputably the father of history than is Sir Boyle Roche the father of Bulls. No doubt there were makers of bulls before his day, even as brave men lived before Agamemnon; but they are not remembered, and if their bulls have survived them they are credited to Sir Boyle by a posterity generously forgiving and forgetful of his famous indictment.
Everything is difficult, and everything worthwhile is difficult. A certain need, a need not unlike Mickey had: to know, to understand, and I had that need to understand and to know.