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- From: jmd@bear.com (Josh Diamond)
- Newsgroups: alt.quotations
- Subject: Re: Machievelli
- Message-ID: <JMD.92Dec22171901@lion.bear.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 22:19:01 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.193750.4417@bmers95.bnr.ca>
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- In-reply-to: snelling@bnr.ca's message of 22 Dec 92 19:37:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.193750.4417@bmers95.bnr.ca> snelling@bnr.ca (Peter Snelling) writes:
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- Machievelli on change:
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- "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."
-
- -- Machievelli
-
- More accuratelly:
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- 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
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-
-
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