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"Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear."
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"It is in our authority and power to stop torment and sickness and deliver people from vanity."

"All human beings wield influence-a powerful sword granted at birth. Wield your sword with care."
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"Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive."


"Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom."


"Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised."


"If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old."


"By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man."


"It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state."
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