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• The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious beliefin lies that have been foisted upon us for ages… — Edgar Rice Burroughs
• It is for the good of nations, and not for the emolument or aggrandizement of particular individuals, that government ought… — Thomas Paine
• They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white… — William Faulkner
• It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are… — Henry Ward Beecher
• War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement — James Madison
• The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally… — Charles Horton Cooley
• Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call… — William A. Clark
• Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions: a conservative tendency, made up of instincts for self-preservation,… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled towards absolute honesty, one… — Glen Cook
• In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying… — Heather Donahue
• The three branches of government number considerably more than three and are not, in any sense, 'branches' since that would… — P.J. O'Rourke
• The object of every free government is the public good, and all lesser interests yield to it. That of every… — Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger

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