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Sektor31
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"Absolute power corrupts absolutely."

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Who originally said this? I searched all over the net and I found names like Lord Acton, Machiavelli, and Thucydides.
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I've never seen it attributed to anyone by Lord Acton.
"The fool saith in his heart that there is no empty set. But if that were so, then the set of all such sets would be empty, and hence it would be the empty set." -- Wesley Salmon
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http://phrases.shu.ac.uk/meanings/288200.html
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