"Work is the only thing I do to escape the corruption of praise."
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"Both political parties have a richly vested interest in corporate corruption."
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"A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption."
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"Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership."
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"Goodness that comes out of hiding and assumes a public role is no longer good, but corrupt in its own terms and will carry its own corruption wherever it goes."
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"All things can corrupt perverse minds."
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"War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions."
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"Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of; just as we call "money" not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass."
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