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> [“Those who seek power at any price detect a societal weakness, a fear that they can ride into office. It could be ethnic differences, as it was then, perhaps different amounts of melanin in the skin; different philosophies or religions;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-sagan/those-who-seek-power-at-any-price-detect-a-societal-weakness-a-fear/)

[Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-sagan/)

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> [Those who seek power at any price detect a societal weakness, a fear that they can ride into office.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-sagan/those-who-seek-power-at-any-price-detect-a-societal-weakness-a-fear-2/)

[Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-sagan/)

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