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Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical read more
Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes.
Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.
Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.
Prepare by knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number of variables you can work with during the read more
Prepare by knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number of variables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walk away... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents the least you will accept. Without one, you have no negotiating road map.
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the read more
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. - "Leadership Is an Art".
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom read more
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.
If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.
A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it -- it keeps him upright.
A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it -- it keeps him upright.
Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the read more
Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by other men.
Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.
Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.
