"All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members."
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"Realism is a corruption of reality."
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"He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption."
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"Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt."
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"He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one."
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"The corruption of the American soul is consumerism."
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"Throw in neglect and politicization of the judicial system and you see the result: soaring rates of cocaine trafficking through Venezuela and worsening corruption of institutions."
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"The government is asleep - there is a big administrative corruption everywhere in its institutions"
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"There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted."
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"Procrastination is also a subtle act of corruption – it corrupts valuable time"
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"If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves."
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"Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck."
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"To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself."
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"That the corruption of the best thing produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances, by the pernicious effects of superstition and enthusiasm, the corruptions of true religion."
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"Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid."
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"The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us."
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"Corruption is the bane of Nigeria. Buhari is against corruption. Buhari is not corrupt. He is very clean and disciplined. Election rigging is worse than armed robbery. Buhari wants free, fair and credible elections in Nigeria."
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"It is purity of spirit that will keep corruption from the flesh"
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"How can one say, 'No, this isn't a part of life,' since it always is? The contaminant of sex, the redeeming corruption that de-idealizes the species and keeps us everlastingly mindful of the matter we are."
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"All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power."
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