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"If human equality is to be for ever averted - if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently - then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity."
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"There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex."
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"The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet."
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"When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary."
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"Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both."
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"Ursula Monkton smiled, and the lightnings wreathed and writhed about her. She was power incarnate, standing in the crackling air. She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and all its foolish casual cruelty."
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"Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see."
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"War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives."
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"Three generations before I was the one meant for the necklace. I saw him when I was three years old, so clear and strong that he could slip his warm hand in mine, he could lift me in theair, yes, lift my body, but I refused him. I turned my back on him. I told him, You go back to the hell from which you came. And I used my power to fight him."
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"There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators."
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"You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world."
Experience
"The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage."
Music
"Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage."
Audience
"I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that's timeless."
Endurance
"Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years."
Power
"At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life."
Life
"I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world."
Nation
"The Senate is an unknowing world."
Unknowing
"I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it."
Life
"Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work."
Work
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