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“There has been more error propagated from the press in the last ten years than in a hundred years before,’ was the jaundiced judgement of John Adams, second president of the United States, and a frequent victim of press vituperation and ridicule.9”
― Andrew Pettegree, The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself

“There is a presence in what is missing." That presence is our own.”
― Jonah Lehrer, Proust Was a Neuroscientist

“«¿Qué día es hoy?» Aureliano le contestó que era martes. «Eso mismo pensaba yo», dijo José Arcadio Buendía. «Pero de pronto me he dado cuenta de que sigue siendo lunes como ayer. Mira el cielo, mira las paredes, mira las begonias. También hoy es lunes.»”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Cien años de soledad

“In December 1994, Yeltsin did what so many desperate leaders have done throughout history to hold on to power: he started a war. His national security chief, Oleg Lobov, had confided to a legislator, “We need a small, victorious war to raise the president’s ratings,” and the defense minister predicted that his army could defeat the forces in the breakaway republic of Chechnya in a matter of hours—a cakewalk. 59”
― Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism