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"Luisa rolls her napkin into a compact ball. "I ask three simple questions. How did he get that power? How is he using it? And how can it be taken off the sonofabitch?"
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"What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People want to get something for nothing."

"Since when has grafts, bribes to get your children into the higher institution become a Nigerian thing?"

"If you have bought the law enforcement department, then you have done nothing wrong when you willfully break multiple laws."

"When the police willfully break the law on video and then deny the event in writing, you know that you are dealing with a blatantly corrupt group of people."

"Corrupt utility companies require a corrupt legal system to protect them from their own sickened workers and the masses."

"The USA legal system is designed to enrich lawyers, protect the government and corporations, and shaft the general public."

"Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them."

"The Trust movie it has shown how one picture could be twisted and even how the cops are dirty!"

"Pure honesty" is dead in a jungle of eternal, bloody impunity, rampant corruption and dirty politics."

"A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people, but those of multinational corporations."
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"In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction."

"This isn't lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays; life insurance. Babies. Love's a dictator."

"Prayer may be a placebo for the disease of helplessness, but placebos can make you feel better."

"Rights are susceptible to subversion, as even granite is susceptible to erosion. My fifth Declaration posits how, in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only "rights, the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful."

"Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous."

"I wonder who had the first computer dream, where, and when? I wonder if computers ever dream of humans."

"Only one-tenth of what you write will make it into your manuscript, but when you knock on that tenth " I rap my knuckles on the table " "you'll hear oaken solidity, not sawdust and glue."
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