“Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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American author and journalist 1899–1961

Thomas Harris Red Dragon

Source: Red Dragon

“People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.”

James Hilton book Lost Horizon

Source: Lost Horizon

“It is a common error, as we have pointed out several times, to interpret opposition to U. S. intervention and aggression as support for the programs of its victims, a useful device for state propagandists but one that often has no basis in fact.”

Edward S. Herman (1925–2017) American journalist

Source: After the Cataclysm: Postwar Indochina and the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology, with Noam Chomsky, 1979, p. 256.

“We spent too much damn time getting down. Now it’s time to get up.”

Malcolm Azania book From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain

Source: From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain (2007), Chapter 9 “Paranoia: It Can Destroy Ya” (p. 258)

“Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.”

Will Durant (1885–1981) American historian, philosopher and writer

“People are tired of so much damn fraud.”

Andrés Manuel López Obrador (1953) president of Mexico

Statement during the daily press conference on February 04, 2019.
Source: [February 4 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvbgCu08syE&, Estrategia de búsqueda de personas desaparecidas. Conferencia presidente AMLO, YouTube, Mexico City, Government of Mexico, Government of Mexico]