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"We're always appreciative of the side-hustle," - Amy Segal speaking on the interview process at Edelman, a public relations firm that built its business working for oil companies, 25 February 2020.

"Thus the primary contradiction of the backlash: it is a working-class movement that has done incalculable, historic harm to working class people." - Thomas Frank, What's the Matter With Kansas (2004)

"If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't." - Hyman, G Rickover, US Navy admiral, New York Times, 3 November 1986

"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.