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"Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there."
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"Every time I watch a person awaken to their inner strength, I see what we're made of, and we're magnificent. We're brilliant. We really are. We crave magic because we are magic. We crave power because we are pure power."

"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."
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"It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool."

"I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts."

"We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts."

"If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough."

"At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman."
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