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That Hemsworth advocates a benevolent, smarter way through “Limitless: Live Better Now” makes it easier to take its lessons to heart.

From Salon

Eventually, white elites in the South began to defend slavery as a beneficial and even benevolent institution, enlisting the Bible as scriptural support.

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"The question is, if coal is king, then can it be a benevolent king?"

From BBC

A benevolent dictatorship was deemed the best form of government for this particular situation by people who said, “How would you keep people alive and in a functional way?”

Throughout, the characters routinely name-drop philosophers and authors they've obviously never read while indulging bizarre fantasies of living forever and ruling the universe as benevolent dictators.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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