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"Each day Humble supplies enough energy to melt seven million tons of glacier!" - Humble Oil full page print advert, Life magazine, 1962.

"We made history but we didn't change a fucking thing," Lawyer who successfully prosecuted PG&E for manslaughter, as quoted in "California Burning" (2022).

"Power leads to more power, no matter what your racket, and not only were they rich and influential but they were smart as hell, too," - Jimmy Hoffa, union leader on the Kennedy Family.

"Repression, sir, is a habit that grows. I am told it is like making love -- it is always easier the second time! - Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore and dictator, 4 October 1956

"He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive," Joseph Heller, Catch 22, page 29.

"Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness," - Joseph Welch, army lawyer, saying the lines that would end Joseph McCarthy's career, 9 June 1954

"The journalist can bring you up in the world nicely. Or the journalist can destroy you," Idi "Big Daddy" Amin, Ugandan dictator in last interview before his death in 2003.

"Peterson, you idiot, stay out of this," Nassim Nicholas Taleb, statistician, responding to Jordan Peterson after he attempted to call Taleb out for refusing to go on Lex Fridman's podcast.

"Anyone who's got anything to fear from such revelations should be scared," - Alexander Korzhakov, Boris Yeltsin's former bodyguard, discussing the secrets he held about his enemies, 11 February 1997

"I have the right to do what I want!" - Nicholai Ceausescu, President of Romania, 25 December 1989, reaction to realisation he was about to be executed by firing squad on Christmas Day.