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Could he use the same excuse as the Confed—the end justified the means? Sometimes it did, of course, but could one ethically justify using the same methods as a deplored enemy, in order to get it to stop?

— Steve Perry The Man Who Never Missed (1985)

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The good old days always seemed better in distant memory than they had actually been at the time.

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Causing the union trouble was easy enough, since unions were almost always paranoid by nature.

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A man can only stay down so long before he rises or loses everything that he is.

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Everybody’s got secrets, and some of the worst ones belong to those with the most power.

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