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The impulse to increase profits can blind men to risk, especially when those at risk are strangers. Society imposes rules on corporate behavior to protect public safety in the face of baser impulses. These rules require enforcement...

To the addicted, money is like cocaine: Too much is never enough.

There was only one thing that worried Benjamin Button; his wife had ceased to attract him. ...[S]he had become too settled in her ways, too placid, too content, too anaemic in her excitements, and too sober in her taste. ...She went out socially with him, but without enthusiasm, devoured already by that eternal inertia which comes to live with each of us one day and stays with us to the end.

The Sunday supplements of the New York papers played up the case with fascinating sketches which showed the head of Benjamin Button attached to a fish, to a snake, and, finally, to a body of solid brass. He became known, journalistically, as the Mystery Man of Maryland. But the true story, as is usually the case, had a very small circulation.

In your profession you must have met lots of very rich self-made men, as rich as or even richer than Zander. They always tend to regard themselves as a little above the law, wouldn't you say?

I think that, to begin with, he had intended to kill Dimitrios when he found him, but as he began to get short of money his hatred of Dimitrios became more reasonable.

Power is for the powerful. Let power fall into the hands of the weak and the rest is tyranny.

If I had not made the money, someone else would have done so. Not one of those unfortunate creatures would have been any better off and I should have lost money.

Latimer turned to watch the subject of these reflections carefully, almost lovingly, adjusting the coffee percolator, and thought how difficult it was to dislike a man when he was making coffee for you.

Drug addicts, you know, are always very eager to get other people to take drugs too.

The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet.

"No one but a fool would say that a man who seethes inside like a volcano is calm.

I only know that when I see a man so tormented and cheated, and with such a look in his eyes, he is dangerous."