A Vaccine for Dementia? The Evidence Is Astonishing.

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Todays Thought

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. 

-Pablo Picasso (25 Oct 1881-1973)

Todays Thought

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? 

-Ursula K. Le Guin, author (21 Oct 1929-2018)

Todays Thought

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. 

-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher (15 Oct 1844-1900)

Todays Thought

In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person with solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs. 

-Daniel J Boorstin, historian, professor, attorney, and writer (1 Oct 1914-2004)

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Todays Thought

The really dangerous American fascists are not those who are hooked up directly or indirectly with the Axis. The FBI has its finger on those. The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power. 

-Henry Agard Wallace, 33rd Vice President of the US (7 Oct 1888-1965)