"In order to achieve the most noble accomplishments, the leader may have to 'enter into evil.' This is the chilling insight that has made Machiavelli so feared, admired, and challenging. It is why we are drawn to him still..."

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Source : Michael A. Ledeen (2007). “Machiavelli on Modern Leadership: Why Machiavelli's Iron Rules Are As Timely And Important Today As Five Centuries Ago”, p.90, Macmillan

Michael A. Ledeen

#Order Quotes #Accomplishment Quotes #Evil Quotes

“If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year.”
“I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.”
“So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.”
“If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.”
“Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important. It's very important for me to know my lines, know them so well that I don't have to think about them.”

Source : Interview With Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 6, 2004.
“The prescription for better health care is more freedom to innovate, not remote-control surgery from Washington.”
“The answer to a lot of your life's questions is often in someone else's face. People's faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous, or asleepTry to keep your mind open to possibilities and your mouth closed on matters that you don't know about. Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers.' Continue to share your heart with people even if it has been broken.”
“I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago.”

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