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"There would always be dishonorable things done to preserve the honor of any power."
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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."

"A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class."

"Politics doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt politics."

"The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship."

"Almost everyone in politics nowadays has at least one conflict of interest."

"They are now informing me that not only are they better than the powerful, the masters of the world whose spittle they have to lick (not from fear, not at all from fear! but because God orders them to honour those in authority) " not only are they better, but they have a "better time, or at least will have a better time one day. But enough! enough! I can't bear it any longer. Bad air! Bad air! This workshop where ideals are fabricated " it seems to me just to stink of lies."

"Oppression is opposition."
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"You want a mate who will follow your dream. You don't want to give up your own ambitions to make someone else's life possible.''I supposed that's true,' Althea admitted reluctantly. An instant later she demanded, 'Why is that so wrong?''It isn't,' Amber assured her, A moment later she added wickedly, 'As long as you're male."


"I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world."


"As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation."


"Those were some astounding lies, cub. And the very last one the most inspired of all. You have your father's talent for it."


"One way to disperse fear and create decision was to consider the worst possible outcome of one's actions."


"That part of your life is over. Set it aside as something you have finished. Complete or no, it is done with you. No being gets to decide what his life is "supposed to be"...'Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. Accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are meant to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such foolishness, but you might as well be dead for all the good your life will do you or anyone else."


"The problem is not that we forget the past. It is that we recall it too well. Children recall wrongs that enemies did to their grandfathers, and blame the granddaughters of the old enemies. Children are not born with memories of those who insulted their mother or slew their grandfather or stole their land. Those hates are bequeathed to them, taught them, breathed into them. If adults didn't tell their children of their hereditary hates, perhaps we would do better."


"As dye soaks fibres, drawn into them to change their colour forever, so does a memory, stinging or sweet, change the fibre of a man's character."
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