"A cult is a religion with no political power."
"On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe."
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Source: The Bonfire of the Vanities ch. 1 (1987). Ellipsis in the original.Wolfe took the phrase Masters of the Universe from a name used in the early 1980s for action figures by the Mattel toy company and in a related television cartoon show.
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