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"Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear."
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"The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination."

"One who rules is ruled."

"Naysayers are frightened of their own power."
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"Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative."

"Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not."

"In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong."

"Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects."

"We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much."

"In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof."
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