Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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There used to be a thing or a commodity we put great store by. It was called the People. Find out where the People have gone. I don't mean the square-eyed toothpaste-and-hair-dye people or the new-car-or-bust people, or the success-and-coronary people. Maybe they never existed, but if there ever were the People, that's the commodity the Declaration was talking about, and Mr. Lincoln.John Steinbeck
I know this -- a man got to do what he got to do.
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I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?
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No one wants advice - only corroboration.
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No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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