#hem

Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration. ↗

— John White Geary

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Les Pauls work out real well for me because I'll beat the hell out of them and they'll still work. The only trouble with them is finding good ones. ↗

— Tommy Shaw

#because #finding #good #good ones #hell

We're not going to dumb down for them. They have to move up. They're the network and we're the show. ↗

— Alia Shawkat

#dumb #going #move #network #show

People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah, no, I'm gonna hang onto them and they're gonna fuel my attack. ↗

— Charlie Sheen

#fuel #gonna #hang #i #onto

To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#convince #people #power #something #them

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#beauty #blasphemy #brings #corruption #devours

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#had #made #many #their #them

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#called #human #human beings #inalienable #inalienable right

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#could #done #example #failure #failures

I met a lot of famous people when I was about 24. And none of them seemed very appealing. And so I didn't know why I would struggle to be that kind of person. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

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