"Wisdom begins at the end."
-Daniel Webster
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"An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.“
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"There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange."
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"The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it."
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"The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power."
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"Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together."
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"Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens."
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"One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up."
-Jeff Goodell
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"Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall."
-Charles Babbage
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"Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently."
-Jeff Goodell
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"A tool is usually more simple than a machine it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power."
-Charles Babbage
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"The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power."
-Jeff Goodell
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"We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit."
-Jonathan Safran Foer
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