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Karl Marx quote: Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.

20 Voltaire Quotes to Improve your Rational Thinking

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Machinist
Machinist
October 5, 2022 7:09 am

Topsy the elephant was electrocuted at Luna Park Zoo on Coney Island in 1903. The event was one of a string of animal electrocutions Edison staged to discredit a new form of electricity: alternating current.
I suppose Edison thought he was close to “success”.
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  Machinist
October 5, 2022 11:57 am

Good point. E also was proprietor of his own patent bordello.

bidenTouchesKids
bidenTouchesKids
October 5, 2022 8:45 am

The Voltaire quote is great and all, unless you need food and shelter that require money.

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  bidenTouchesKids
October 5, 2022 11:55 am

V for Voltaire said “everything.”

The very significant fact that I did not give the warranted significant weight to until much later (& so wasted important time headed down a box canyon) is that “money” went full counterfeit in 1971.

Machinist
Machinist
  i forget
October 5, 2022 2:11 pm

They didn’t call him “Tricky Dick” for nothing. Ironically, when he closed the window,one might say that “everything” was defenestrated.

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  Machinist
October 5, 2022 3:38 pm

Yes. You’re just bathwater now, baby. (But we’ve had this plan for you for a long time now.)

Machinist
Machinist
  i forget
October 5, 2022 5:09 pm

It has been a Long March, but in perspective, it’s just another circuit around the Kaaba.