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Being on President Nixon's enemies list was the highest single honor I've ever received. Who knows who's listening to me now and what government list I'm on?

— Paul Newman

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Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.

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People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

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A man with no enemies is a man with no character.

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I've been accused of being aloof. I'm not. I'm just wary.

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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

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