“Although eugenics flourished in Nazi Germany, the ideal of a blond-haired, blue-eyed master race wasn’t Adolf Hitler’s. It may surprise many to know that, in Mein Kampf, Hitler credited America with helping formulate his ideas on eugenics, and he admitted he’d studied the laws of US states to familiarize himself with selective reproduction and other eugenics issues.” KnowsMayIdeasStatesHelpingAmericaLawRaceIssuesMastersIdealsBlueSurpriseGermanyNaziReproductionEugenicsSelectiveNazi GermanyMein KampfBlue Eyed Author:James Morcan
“I spoke bluntly about what I had seen in a little over a year as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. To the apparent surprise of many in the room, I observed publicly that insider trading appeared to be rampant.” YearsLittlesStatesUnitedRoomsUnited StatesNew YorkSurpriseSpokesSouthernTradingAttorneyInsidersInsider Trading Author:Preet Bharara
“Every once in a while, someone would call me a foreigner or a Yankee, or whatever. In the United States, someone might say something, like how kids do, to point out that you're different. That would come as a surprise to me. As you get old, you either get defensive about it or you accept it and you reach out, because you realize the world's full of people like that.” PeopleWorldDifferentStatesMightKidsRealizingUnitedAcceptingUnited StatesSurpriseCall MeReach OutYankeesForeignersOld You Author:Viggo Mortensen
“The drive to be useful is encoded in our genes. But when we gather in very large numbers, as in the modern nation-state, we seem capable of levels of folly and self-destruction to be found nowhere else in all of nature. But if we keep at it and keep alive, we are in for one surprise after another. We can build structures for human society never seen before, thoughts never heard before, music never heard before.” IfsHumansSelfStatesSeemsFoundNationsLevelsNumbersAliveHeardModernCapableDestructionStructureSurprisePersistenceFollyGenesLarge NumbersHuman SocietySelf Destruction Author:Lewis Thomas