Machiavelli taught me that you never worry about the bubble you live in, you work in. If you are only worried about the six inches before your face, you have no concern about your hindsight and you definitely have no foresight for the pitfalls before you. If you’ve ever read The Prince you understand that the politics of the mind are far greater than the politics of the moment. Controlling yourself and your outcome is the only way to truly control your future. That’s the only way to really dispel the fog of war.
-OM
cant be more true!
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Thank you! 🙂
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Reblogged this on From guestwriters.
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True that! To all of it!
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Was just on my mind heh.
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I remember my turn at the pages. I was surprised it was so short yet took a good number of naps to get through. It was frightening in that it seemed to paint today hundreds of years ago. I was old enough to catch a joke in an acme acres cartoon about getting a real prince… Poof the artist formerly then known as then poof machievelli….hee hee.
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It painted someone in every age, which is the point I believe. 🙂
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I’m fonder of scotch? However I rarely get a good sour…. I guess I’m just meant for the g/a and blends…. Maybe I’ll cut a PRINCELY fart.
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I’m fond of scotch as well. Preferably one around the age of 18-21. 🤔
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🙂 sorry to be rude to that machievelli fellow but power oft not weilded through the just
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He was never speaking of an actual person. We just happen to fit the profile sometimes, because we are human.
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Visions of star trek 2.
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https://youtu.be/9_8nY_LQL3w in case you don’t hinge on words…. Reminded of the scene as you said “Human”
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He also said that the attainment of power often requires unethical methods.
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He did and I believe it. If you don’t care about your soul. The Art of War.
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Explains our Presidency, for at least the current millennium.
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I highly doubt Trump has read any classics. Cliff notes don’t count lol.
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Books on tape?
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Hahahah.
Something you’ll get, but most won’t – idiocy can look brilliant until proven to be idiocy.
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People prefer to remain in ignorance. They pick their side and will stick with it until the bitter end, refusing to admit that the other side may be right, or at least is not totally wrong. The nation is largely divided into left and right with the middle making up less and less of Americana each cycle.
We have been voting based on largess for over a half-century now, we are rapidly advancing towards the end of this experiment.
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I knew I was in a tube. Damn. 😂🤷♂️
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