"A cult is a religion with no political power."
"There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit."
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Source: Tom Wolfe (2008). “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”, p.214, Macmillan
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