"Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed."

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Source : Wally Lamb (1998). “I Know This Much Is True”, p.897, Cambridge University Press

Wally Lamb

#Defeat Quotes #Used Quotes #Wells Quotes

“I believe the ability to measure, with precision, the degree of human activity's impact on the climate is subject to more debate on whether the climate is changing or whether human activity contributes to it.”
“It is rightly said that the most difficult thing in chess is winning a won position”
“I'm excited to have the opportunity to lead one of the true e-commerce innovators.”
“We need to take a whole UK perspective on this [Brexit]. The Mayor of London has got a role in those kinds of discussions.”
“The haggardness of poverty is everywhere seen contrasted with the sleekness of wealth, the exhorted labour of some compensating for the idleness of others, wretched hovels by the side of stately colonnades, the rags of indigence blended with the ensigns of opulence; in a word, the most useless profusion in the midst of the most urgent wants.”
“We don't have any real justice in the legal system, you never see a headline that reads, Millionaire Gets Death Sentence.”
“C being what it is lacks support for multiple return values, so the notion that it is meaningful to pass pointers to memory objects into which any random function may write random values without having a clue where they point, has not been debunked as the sheer idiocy it really is.”
“Remember that even in war there is a time for restraint. A time to hold back your sword.”

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