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Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense. — Robert Greene

If you can't convince them, confuse them. — Harry S Truman

Could it be that simple? Tell one story to one generation and repeat it until it was accepted as fact? — Kiera Cass The Elite

Do you know how to unite people behind you, Child Carridin? The quickest way? No? Loose a lion - a rabid lion - in the streets. And when panic grips the people, once it has turned their bowels to water, calmly tell them you will deal with it. Then you kill it, and order them to hang the carcass up where everyone can see. Before they have time to think, you give another order, and it will be obeyed. And if you continue to give orders, they will continue to obey, for you will be the one who saved them, and who better to lead? — Robert Jordan The Dragon...

We don't care about you.. we care who is behind you... so the idea is you to be the victim and we to catch the killer... — Deyth Banger

A lot of what we know to be history isn't…it serves a purpose. Events are exaggerated, heroes fabricated, goals are rewritten to appear more noble than they actually were. All to manipulate public opinion, to manufacture a common purpose or enemy. And the cornerstone of a really great movement? A powerful symbol. Take away or tarnish that and everything starts to crumble, everything's questioned. — Louise Penny Bury Your Dead

A thousand truths can be assembled in such a way as to create a colossal lie. — James Rozoff

The old woman had destroyed his family so thoroughly it couldn't have been accidental. It wasn't her niece's greed - the old woman had played a trick on them the whole time. — Colson Whitehead The Underground...

Everything that highly educated men can do to obscure a simple truth, to make a woman doubt her feelings, to make her own thoughts a muddle, they do to her. They use their learning as a hurdle to herd her one way and then the other and then finally trap her in contradictions of which she can make no sense. — Philippa Gregory The Lady of the...

Amy's basically exploiting the sociopath's most reliable maxim. The bigger the lie, the more they believe it. — Gillian Flynn Gone Girl

Children, who have so much to learn in so short a time, had involved the tendency to trust adults to instruct them in the collective knowledge of our species, and this trust confers survival value....

The television is 'real'. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your...

William McKinley was a man made to be managed.

Of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are the most apt to get out of order.

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if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.

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