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   Re: Sauron and Letter 183 (2/2)   
   30 Jul 10 23:57:54   
   
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       Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts   
       absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.   
    - Lord Acton,   
       in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 1887.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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