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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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I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it. – Don DeLillo

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wedding
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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
Author
Don Delillo
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Will power is only the tensile strength of ones own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. – Cesare Pavese

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power

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People. – Benjamin Disraeli

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power

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. – Harry Emerson Fosdick

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power

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freemans power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. – Ambrose Bierce

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power

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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure. – Will Durant

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Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun. – Hilaire Belloc

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Today, all patients accepted for treatment at St. Judes are treated without regard for the familys ability to pay. Everything beyond what is covered by insurance is taken care of, and for those without insurance, all of the medical costs are absorbed by the hospital. – Marlo Thomas

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Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. – Margaret Lee Runbeck, Answer Without Ceasing

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