The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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- Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.
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- I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
- A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.