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- From: smehta@kwela.nynexst.com (Sandeep Mehta)
- Newsgroups: alt.quotations
- Subject: Re: Machievelli
- Message-ID: <SMEHTA.92Dec22160551@kwela.nynexst.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 21:05:51 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.193750.4417@bmers95.bnr.ca>
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- Organization: Speech Technology, AI Lab, NYNEX S&T Inc, White Plains, NY
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- In-Reply-To: snelling@bnr.ca's message of Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:37:50 GMT
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-
- > snelling@bnr.ca (Peter Snelling) writes:
-
- > Machievelli on change:
- >
- > "A new system is a hard thing to put into place, it is opposed by those
- > that would be disadvantaged by the new system and it recieves no support
- > from those that would benefit."
-
- The one I have is a bit more elaborate but the contents are
- essentially the same. I don't know the reference.
-
- It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more
- doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a
- new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by
- the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in
- those who would gain by the new ones.
- -Machiavelli
-
- /sandeep
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- smehta@nynexst.com
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