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[Self-]assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowl
[Self-]assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge. – George Santayana, Character and Opinion in the United States, 1921

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I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it. – Edgar Allan Poe

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The way to have power is to take it. – Boss Tweed

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The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power. – Albert Camus, The Rebel

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