Thousands of years of human history have shown that the ideal setting for children to grow up is with a MOTHER and a father committed to one ANOTHER, LIVING together, and SHARING the responsibility of RAISING their children.

From FOOD trucks to hot dog stands to county fair favorites, 'street food' has enjoyed a RICH and storied history in American cuisine. However, street food has been around for thousands of years. In FACT, street food is believed to have originated as FAR back as Ancient Rome.

In my view, targeted lethal force is at its least controversial when it is on its STRONGEST, most traditional legal FOUNDATION. The essential mission of the U.S. military is to capture or kill an enemy. Armies have been doing this for thousands of years. As PART of a congressionally authorized armed conflict, the foundation is even stronger.

People find birdsong relaxing and REASSURING because over thousands of years, they have learnt when the BIRDS sing, they are safe; it's when birds stop SINGING that people NEED to worry.

So much music in Africa was created for specific moments, written for RITUALS or for a FUNERAL or for challenges, thousands of YEARS ago, and these rhythms are STILL used.

Imagine THOUSANDS and thousands of YEARS ago, when the HUMAN race was born in Africa, if we'd not ALLOWED them to get out of Africa then we wouldn't exist.

Yoga has been done for THOUSANDS of YEARS and if PEOPLE keep doing it, it MUST mean it works.

Nobody who's THOUGHT about politics or democracy over the thousands of years that PEOPLE have been thinking about democracy hasn't come up against the fact that the people will OFTEN be WRONG. And what do you do when they are? You can't just SAY, 'Well, it's the will of the people.'

I'll TAKE transformational change any WAY it comes. One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over THOUSANDS of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection. To CALL what happens 'the placebo effect' is just to give a name to something we don't UNDERSTAND.