A prince who is not wise himself will never take good advice.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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Anyone who has once looked into the glassy eyes of a dying warrior on the battle-field would think twice before beginning a war.
~ Otto von Bismarck
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Every concept arises from the equation of unequal things.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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Courage is grace under pressure.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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Woodrow Wilson was the first world leader to perceive security as a benefit that could be shared by like-minded nations. Until then, each great power had clambered over others to field bigger armies, float bigger navies, and accumulate more colonies. This competition had culminated in the disastrous outbreak of the Great War. Wilson glimpsed the possibility of a different way: that shared values might provide a more stable basis for peace among advanced nations than the quest for military dominance.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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The encouragement of light-mindedness about traditional philosophical topics serves the same purposes as does the encouragement of light-mindedness about traditional theological topics.
~ Richard Rorty
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via David Allen
Procrastination via David Allen
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As the technology matures, it becomes less and less relevant. The technology is taken for granted.
~ Donald Norman
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Platforms such as Facebook and Instagram act like dams that capitalize on our natural interest in others and an ageless need for community, hijacking and frustrating our most innate desires, and profiting from them. Solitude, observation, and simple conviviality should be recognized not only as ends in and of themselves, but inalienable rights belonging to anyone lucky enough to be alive.
~ Jenny Odell
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Everybody sees what you seem, but few know what thou art.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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