The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power. -
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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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.