One thing that history teaches us is that we should never underestimate human stupidity…It’s one of the most powerful forces in the world…You can’t trust humans and even human leaders to do what is best for humanity. You can hope for it, but it’s not certain.
I have been collecting bits of wisdom in the form of words and poems for almost fifty years. These words have come from writers, poets, politicians, the every day man and woman, the famous and the infamous. I am The Wisdom Archivist.
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In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained;... We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking. I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. — Henry David Thoreau