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"In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes."
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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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"Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted."


"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."


"Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence."


"Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does."


"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."


"Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive."
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