"Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something."

Power, Control, Fear, Desire

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"Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something."

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Voltaire, French Writer

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"Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure."

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"I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power."

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"She felt powerless to withstand or deny him. He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it to blow so strongly that it stops the breath."

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"There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals."

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"I thus found that the student who wishes for a shelter can obtain one for a lifetime at an expense not greater than the rent which he now pays annually. If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself; and my shortcomings and inconsistencies do not affect the truth of my statement."

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"We have the St. Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still."

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"I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."

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"How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends that we may go and meet their ideal cousins."

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"The savage in man is never quite eradicated."

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"I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while."

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