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"Liberal: a power worshipper without power."
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"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
"A wolf can only mock a lion thousands of miles away."
"One who has great wisdom has great power."
"They couldn't hurt Gansey. Nothing could hurt him; people who said money couldn't buy everything hadn't seen anyone as rich as the Aglionby boys. They were untouchable, immune to life's troubles. Only death couldn't be swiped away by a credit card."
"Your mind can help you do the unimaginable. Your hands can help you get the unattainable. Your heart can help you accomplish the unachievable. Your soul can help you create the inconceivable. Your God can help you achieve the unthinkable."
"Genuine anger was one of the world's great creative forces. But you had to learn how to control it. That didn't mean you let it trickle away. It meant you dammed it, carefully, let it develop a working head, let it drown whole valleys of the mind and then, just when the whole structure was about to collapse, opened a tiny pipeline at the base and let the iron-hard stream of wrath power the turbines of revenge."
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"Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."
"A story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes."
"It was a vast, luminous dream in which his whole life seemed to stretch out before him like a landscape on a summer evening after rain."
"For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace of mind, money for trips to Italy. Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O lord, give me money, only money."
"The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed."
"If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters."
"Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house."
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