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• There is a softness to the general’s voice, a sadness.
• Most people don’t believe something can happen until it already has. That’s not stupidity or weakness, that’s just human nature.
• Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.
• “Fear,” he used to say, “fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe.” That blew me away. “Turn on the TV,” he’d say. “What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products.” Fuckin’ A, was he right. Fear of aging, fear of loneliness, fear of poverty, fear of failure. Fe...
• To “decimate”…I used to think it meant just to wipe out, cause horrible damage, destroy…it actually means to kill by a percentage of ten, one out of every ten must die…and