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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue. ↗

But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes. ↗

— Robert Shea

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The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others. ↗

— Bernard Berenson

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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections. ↗

— Lord Acton

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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. ↗

— Gore Vidal

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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. ↗

— John Updike

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Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds. ↗

— Bob Black

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Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails. ↗

— Harold Bloom

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If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius - it wasn't a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype. ↗

— Neil Bogart

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Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop. ↗