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"Feel free to treat everyone like scum, for if they desire something from you, they'll just have to put up with it, and should they rise to wealth and power, any past civility shown toward them will either be forgotten, or remembered as some aberrant and contemptible display of weakness."

--- David Mamet, from his new book "Bambi vs. Godzilla," on Hollywood's version of the 'golden rule.'