Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
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Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power. -
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- I do the very best I know how - the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
- The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
- The things I want to know are in books my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
- My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.