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Rob Payne Inspirational Quotes (27)

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My life is ticking away one subway token at a time - a never ending pirouette of arriving and departing, pushing through turnstiles, nodding goodbye and hello. In eight hours I'll be allowed to turn around and go home.
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The game of power is played remorselessly by men who have not the slightest knowledge of, or interest in, the way ordinary people live, and the ordinary people are too terrified to protest.
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People never realize how much work impacts there self esteem and sense of purpose until they leave a job.
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Like so many other office workers of the world, I will obey my master, the clock, and will obediently nod to my co-workers and make small talk about sports, kids and weather - all things I'm not genuinely interested in.
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Uncorrupted man, with God's blessing, advances across the fields of the universe as though he were walking down a country lane.
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Sometimes I wonder why the corporate world is seen as a god choice for those of us that will never rise above clerical work and general administration.
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Corrupt men are always liars. Lies are their instruments, their pleasure, their solace. In time they come to believe their lies, or rather to half-believe them.
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I pitied myself for having no door until I met a man with no dividers.
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There has to be a better use for titanium than golf clubs.
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It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights.
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Naked power has its limitations, since power is a generator of corruption and corruption in its turn tends to dilute the effectiveness of power.
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The corrupt man is nearly always rootless, deeply aware of his rootlessness.
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The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5 percent of the population.
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Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it.
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It's nice to have one worry marched to the wings and forcefully thrown into the alleyway.
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If you have any doubt that time is relative, try stretching fifteen minutes' worth of input of over four hours cubicle-cell time with an ultra-slow internet connection and frequent visits from supervisors.
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Nietzsche's accomplishment is that he permits us to see corruption from the inside.
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For domination has nothing whatsoever to do with good government, and power as an end in itself destroys good government.
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Authority is permission to spew platitudes to people below you.
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Throughout the history of Christianity, there had been a core of belief that man was not doomed to be everlastingly corrupt.
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The corrupt, when found out, become especially good moralists.
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People are shuffling by in long coats, with shopping bags and takeout, smoking cigarettes and feigning laughter - filling up their lives with distractions to shut out the chaos.
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It is no more rational to have lawyers in positions of power than it would be to have garbage collectors in positions of power. And in human terms garbage collectors would be preferable.
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At the heart of the mystery of corruption lies the desire of one man to impose his will on others to the largest possible extent.
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