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“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
Michael Crichton

Václav Havel
“The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him.”
Vaclav Havel

Václav Havel
“The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.”
Vaclav Havel

Václav Havel
“All human suffering concerns each human being”
Vaclav Havel

Ray Cummings
“Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.”
Ray Cummings, The Girl in the Golden Atom
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