"He used to say that there were two kinds of reporters. 'The first kind digs in the ground for truth. He stands down in the hole shovelling out dirt. But up on the top there's another man, shovelling the dirt back in. There's always a duel going on between these two. The fourth estate's eternal test of strength for dominance. Some journalists want to expose and reveal things, others run errands for those in power and help conceal what is really happening.'" Henning Mankell in "Sidetracked", 1995. Steven T. Murray translation.
I think it is important to be frequently optimistic and thoughtful!
RT
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As put by Charles Darwin to Francis Galton: ' […] I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work; I still think this an eminently important difference.'"
"Truth and reality, once told or experienced, is only a stranger before the first instance. One must learn to recognise one's ephemeral friends very soon. Some experience, sense and recognise both the truth and reality before it happens, while others never at all."