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Barbara Tuchman

"The process of gaining power employs means which degrade or brutalize the seeker, who awakes to find that power has been possessed at the cost of virtue or moral purpose lost."

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"The process of gaining power employs means which degrade or brutalize the seeker, who awakes to find that power has been possessed at the cost of virtue or moral purpose lost."

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"To survive in a corrupt country, you need to be the son of a king or be king yourself."

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"Wherever there is abuse there is also corruption. Politics, philosophy, theology, science, industry, any field with the potential to affect the well-being of others can be destroyed by abuse and saved by good will."

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"It always starts out that way," Kanin said, and his voice was distant, as if remembering. "Noble intentions, honor among new vampires. Vows to not harm humans, to take only what is needed, to not hunt them like sheep through the night."

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"Humans do worse things with money rather than for money."

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"If corruption had already taken root, then good seeds must be preserved."

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"Therefore, until the day I die, I am going to do what I can, regardless of the cost to me, to try to stop this awful corruption that is destroying our beloved democracy."

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"The aspects of corruption contradicts the meaning of realism because our planet is occupied with a huge chunk of brainwashed people. The only way, our world can overcome this problem, if educators pay m,ore attention to their learners and prepare them to gain knowledge about moral values and real life responsibilities."

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"Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt."

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"All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members."

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"The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion."
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"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost."
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"Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism."
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"Books are humanity in print."
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"The affair made men feel larger than life."
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"A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: "Live for that better day."
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"Proper society did not think about MAKING money, only about spending it."
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"Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age."
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"House speaker Thomas read could see the trend, but he could not have changed himself."
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