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Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents has been always tragic, chiefly as an almost indecent excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards; but also because no mind is so well balanced as to bear the strain of seizing unlimited force without habit or knowledge of it; and finding it disputed with him by hungry packs of wolves and hounds whose lives depend on snatching the carion.

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Robert Caro

The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.

Democracy, Important, Minorities, Minority, Right

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At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.

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Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

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I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives

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Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years

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The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations

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