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The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. - Oliver W

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. – Toni Morrison

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