"Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere."

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“Talent alone is not enough. In the end, Guardian, it is desire that creates a master vintner, makes him into a Vineart. A passion, not for power, or strength, but for the grapes themselves. Anything else leads to ruin.”

“That is the danger of an idea, Jerzy. Once planted, you cannot control where the roots may go.”

“He is not bound so tightly by tradition that he will refuse a good idea simply for it being new, and not so wild that he would take a bad idea simply because it is new.”

“And still, the more he learned, the more he became aware that he did not know.”

“Any change in routine was terrifying, even if it involved less violence rather than more.”

“Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered.”

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