Plentitude, when too plentitudinous, was worst than destitution, for—obviously—what could one do, if there was nothing one could not?
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In "Tale of the Three Storytelling Machines of King Genius", §4Stanislaw Lem
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I make them for the worst of the patients, the ones on chemotherapy and the ones totally wasting away. I pick out the worst of the worst and turn them on.
Brownie Mary
"Of course I deserve it,” I said, stroking Mojo. “That’s the simplest thing about dealing with me, apparently. I always deserve the worst! The worst disloyalty, the worst betrayal, the worst abandonment! Lestat the scoundrel. Well, they have left this scoundrel entirely on his own."
Anne Rice
Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.
Viktor Yushchenko
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
Joseph Conrad
"Fanaticism and extremism cannot grow on an earth whose soil is embedded in the spirit of tolerance, moderation, and balance. Good governance can eliminate injustice, destitution and poverty."
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
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