There are three things I know for sure in this fanciful, sometimes inglorious experience we call life:
1. You will never have a safety pin when you need one, and you will have thousands when you don’t need one.
2. Wild animals are breathtakingly majestic until they’re crawling up your pant leg.
3. A U.S. presidential administration will never admit that it invaded another country or backed a coup attempt in order to essentially steal the natural resources (oil) of said country.
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"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back." —Carl Sagan
