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“One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.”
― Anthony Liccione

tags: abeyance, anticipation, assurance, auspices, belief, broken-promises, confidence, contemplation, curiosity, destiny, eager, expectations, false, foresight, hope, intentions, lookout, pain, perspective, prediction, presumption, prospect, receiver, reckoning, roses, sanguine, shower, speeches, suspense, thorns, trust, waiting, words

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“It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.”
― Aung San Suu Kyi, Freedom from Fear

tags: corruption, fear, oppression, power

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