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In Donald's mind, even acknowledging an inevitable threat would indicate weakness. Taking responsibility would open him up to blame. Being a hero- being good- is impossible for him.

— Mary L. Trump Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man (2020)

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Nobody has failed upward as consistently and spectacularly as the ostensible leader of the free world.

Too Much and Never Enough (2020)

"Does anyone even believe the bullshit that he's a self-made man? What has he ever accomplished on his own?"

Too Much and Never Enough (2020)

In order to get Donald, his psychopathologies, and the meaning of his dysfunctional behavior, we need a thorough family history.

Too Much and Never Enough (2020)

"The only time Donald went to church was when the cameras were there.

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Fred kept propping up Donald's false sense of accomplishment until the only asset Donald had was the ease with which he could be duped by more powerful men.

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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.

Edward Teller

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

C. S. Lewis God in the Dock (1970)

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.

Henry David Thoreau Walden (1854)

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