" 'When a man aspires to power, I ask one simple question: Does he think like a businessman?' Luisa rolls her napkin into a compact ball. 'I ask three simple questions. How did he get that power? How is he using it? And how can it be taken off the sonofabitch?'" - Luisa Rey in Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
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