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Quote by Don Delillo
People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power. – Don DeLillo

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The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him what he needed to live. The more time he spent in a cell, the stronger he would get. Everybody knew who he was now. – Don Delillo

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Assassination
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Don Delillo
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Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted. – Don Delillo

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Secrets
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Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom. – Don DeLillo

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alone
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In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention. – Simone Weil

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Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people. – George W. Bush

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Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it. – Samuel Richardson

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Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many. – Maggie Kuhn

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