| Normally, we portray our politicians as desiccated calculating machines, charlatans or megalomaniacs. |
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| Like all megalomaniacs, he finally turned on his own people, those he claimed to be saving. |
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| It was the familiar despotic argument made by megalomaniacs all through history. |
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| Both are megalomaniacs who listen only to themselves or a small group around them. |
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| Such is the fate of those who tie their future to the whims of megalomaniacs. |
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| Science is always under siege by charlatans, and theories of gravity are among the most attractive to con artists and self-deceiving megalomaniacs. |
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| We at The Register could perhaps understand people getting exercised about the operating software they run being produced by outfits run by deranged, pop-eyed megalomaniacs. |
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| Like other megalomaniacs throughout history, Saddam has shown a breathtaking propensity to miscalculate, by invading Iran and Kuwait. |
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| I've worked for producers, and I know producers, who are true megalomaniacs, and need to write everything, and be responsible for everything, and get all the credit. |
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| What often happens to long-serving incumbents, even those who are not confirmed megalomaniacs, has happened to him. |
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| Death is courted by fundamentalists and megalomaniacs, radicals and populists, who sustain their power with gunpowder. |
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| Just like all megalomaniacs, Ahab retains the mastery of his crew through a mixture of charisma, the generalization of his foe into the evil itself and by the temptation of a golden reward. |
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| Egypt's Ikhwan are proposing a similar arrangement. The vaunted Turkish modelStill the Brotherhood stands out as a movement of institutions, not a figleaf for megalomaniacs. |
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| Seventy years ago people were persecuted and terrorised in the name of megalomaniacs who wanted to rule the planet. |
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| There is something megalomanic about collecting Leonardos. Leonardos are for megalomaniacs. Bill Gates buys Leonardos. |
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| Not surprisingly, that turns a good few of them into megalomaniacs. |
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| Certainly, the megalomaniacs who aim to populate municipal fixtures with registered-trademark logos will expect cities to genuflect at every turn. |
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| And, yes, some of them are governed by corrupt bullies or megalomaniacs who would rather blow money on space rockets than feeding their own destitute people. |
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