"And Adam ruled, for he was the King. Until the day his will to be King deserted him. Then he died, food for a stronger. And the strongest was always the King, not by strength alone, but King by cunning and luck and strength together. Among the rats."

-- James Clavell

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“Every man's friend is no man's friend.”
“This boy turkied my Thanksgiving, but I won't let him Grinch my Christmas. -Dean Hughes (Midway to Heaven)”
“Thou art my life, my love, my heart, The very eyes of me: And hast command of every part To live and die for thee.”

Source : 'To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything'
“As policy makers, our interest isn't necessarily the narrow interests of specific corporations but the national security interests of the United States.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“There was neither horizon, cloud, nor sound; of that pink, spread silence even I had become part, belonging as much to sky as to earth.”
“I am spoken to not in words, which come to me quaint and veiled, but in signs, in conformations of face and hands, in postures of shoulders and feet, in nuances of tune and tone, in gaps and absences whose grammar has never been recorded.”
“When I was a teenager, if you'd asked me, I would have said I was in a relationship with New York City. It was my first real love.”
“Great books, like large skulls, have often the least brains.”

Source : William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.89

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