"Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power."

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"We have inexhaustible resources to achieve the goal."

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"What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when he's done with his work, what's any artist but the dregs of his work, the human shambles that follows it around?"

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"How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me."

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"Only when the lion is out of sight can you raise your fist at him."

"The mind of a man!"

"Strength is wealth."

"If human equality is to be for ever averted - if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently - then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity."

"We must conquer the fear to avoid losing the battle."

"I do not punish my enemies with arrogance; I punish ,them, undoubtedly more subtle - with devoted respect."

"Power is not powerful without wisdom."

"We have inexhaustible resources to achieve the goal."

"Words are weapons."

"The power of imagination is a miracle."

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"Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance."

"Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power."

"Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law."

"What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when he's done with his work, what's any artist but the dregs of his work, the human shambles that follows it around?"

"He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played."

"How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me."

"We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are."

"I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge."

"There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work."