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"Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly."
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"My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely."

"Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly."
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"Very few of the common people realize that the political and legal systems have been corrupted by decades of corporate lobbying."

"Greed and corruption isn't in the world.It's in the people"."

"Western police officers are an arguably corrupt group of people that have rigged the system to make them almost untouchable."

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

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

"This love of money is the curse of American, and for the sake of it men will sell honor and honesty, till we don't know whom to trust, and it is only a genius like Agassiz who dares to say, 'I cannot waste my time in getting rich,'" said Mrs. Jessie sadly."

"Law enforcement are the facilitators of corporate fraud."

"There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,Doing more murder in this loathsome world,Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell."

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

"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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