I don't believe in extraordinary concatenations of coincidence.

A scientist ought to have a healthy disregard for coincidences.

"It was a coincidence."
"I don't believe in coincidences."
"Neither do I. That's a coincidence, isn't it?"

Military intelligence officers cannot afford to be celebrators of diversity, Utopians, game-theorists, apostles of negotiation, or purveyors of the idea that the Internet will bring us all together.

We do not believe anyone - we do not trust any beautiful verbal constructions. There is a real situation on the battlefield.

You see, the trouble with detectives is that they’re detectives and are literally trained not to believe anything they haven’t verified themselves.

People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.

Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

We're not interested in gimmicks, clever rhetoric or conventional thinking.

I don’t want to believe them, I just don’t want to believe them

Never can an authority admit that the intellectually courageous - those who dare to defy his authority - may be the most valuable type.

I have never believed in coincidences, and my career path in journalism was definitely not a matter of chance, either. I always entrust to God's Providence the key matters of my life.

If I made a list of all the things in life I thought were coincidences and then looked back at them, I would see that they weren't coincidences at all.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.