Source: Why Stock Markets Crash - Critical Events in Complex Systems (2003), Chapter 4, Positive Feedbacks, p. 108.
“On political matters basically the best, though not infallible, source is rumor …”
Robert Conquest (1917–2015) poet and historian from England and the United States
From Grover Furr on Robert Conquest http://www.stalinsociety.org/2015/08/05/grover-furr-on-robert-conquest/ at stalinsociety.org',' 2015/08/05
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2nd Presidential Debate, October 8, 2004 http://www.debates.org/pages/trans2004c.html <br class="br">2000s, 2004
“I don't have to listen to rumors about a man when I can judge him for myself.”
Stephen King (1947) American author
Source: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons
“Memory… is an internal rumor.”
George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
“Generating rumors is one thing even the most inept armed force does exceedingly well.”
Glen Cook book Soldiers Live
Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 78, “Midway Between: Bad News” (p. 615)
Mumia Abu-Jamal (1954) Prisoner, Journalist, Broadcaster, Author, Activist
"A Year In: More Same Than Change" http://prisonradio.org/more_of_same.htm
“The subject of a rumor is always the last to hear it.”
Stefan Zweig book The Post Office Girl
The Post Office Girl (published posthumously in 1982)
