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"Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men wou'd be tyrants if they cou'd." – Daniel Defoe
"The first of April, some do say Is set apart for All Fools' Day; But why the people call it so, Nor I, nor they themselves, do know." – Poor Robin's Almanac (1760), "All Fools' Day".
"Manipulations of opinion, insofar as they are inspired by well-defined interests, have limited goals; their effect, however, if they happen to touch upon an issue of authentic concern, is no longer subject to their control and may easily produce consequences they never foresaw or intended." – Hannah Arendt, "Eichmann in Jerusalem" (1963), Postscript to the revised (1965) edition.