“It's still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.”
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), Ch. 1
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“The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.”
Source: Drinking: A Love Story

Referring to leaks against Gillard allegedly made by Rudd during the 2010 election campaign.
The Killing Season, Episode three: The Long Shadow (2010–13)

“Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative.”
“A Lie,” p. 65
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Stone and a Word”

“There's nothing that's ever happened in the world that didn't start in one human mind.”
2000s, In Depth with Tom Clancy (2002)

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/06/elon-musk-warns-ai-could-create-immortal-dictator-in-documentary.html
Context: If AI has a goal and humanity just happens to be in the way, it will destroy humanity as a matter of course without even thinking about it. No hard feelings. It’s just like, if we’re building a road and an anthill just happens to be in the way, we don’t hate ants, we’re just building a road, and so, goodbye anthill.