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Success is very intoxicating. It is very difficult to handle all the fame and adulation. It corrupts you. You start to believe that everybody around you is in awe of you, that everybody wants you, and that everybody is thinking of you all the time.

~Ajith Kumar

Topics: Adulation Around Awe Believe Corrupts Difficult Everybody Fame Handle Intoxicating Start Success Success Is Thinking Time Very Wants You

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The whole macho thing has to be reexamined. Because in my view, the Bush administration was weak, not strong. To engage in a policy of torture is a weak policy. Because ultimately, it encourages the terrorists. It undermines our own values. It corrupts our system. And it doesn't get good intelligence.

~Alex Gibney

Topics: Administration Because Bush Bush Administration Corrupts Encourages Engage Get Good Intelligence Macho Our Own Policy Strong System Terrorists Thing Torture Ultimately Values View Weak Whole

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Too many terms corrupts politicians so they only want to be reelected.

~Alice Paul

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Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.

~Alveda King

Topics: Beings Believing Certain Corrupts Falsehood Fully Human Human Beings Less Lie Minds Others Our Racism Right Self-Centered Springs Than Treat Treated Want Would

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Money greases the wheel of American democracy and corrupts it all.

~Andy Dunn

Topics: American Corrupts Democracy Money Wheel

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Waiving debts corrupts the credit culture.

~Arundhati Bhattacharya

Topics: Corrupts Credit Culture Debts

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It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

~Aung San Suu Kyi

Topics: Corrupts Fear Losing Power Power Corrupts Scourge Subject Those Who

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Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

~Benjamin Banneker

Topics: Bad Bad Manners Communication Corrects Corrupts Evil Good Good Manners Hear Hope Live Manners

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I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secured on the back of massive parliamentary majorities, which don't reflect the balance of political opinion in the country - can corrupt absolutely.

~Charles Kennedy

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Torture produces unreliable evidence and therefore doesn't achieve and protect anybody. Torture corrupts those who are doing the torturing.

~Cherie Blair

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