7/17/09

Politics Does Not = Chess III

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding


because I think, well, if they attack one personally


it means they have not a single political argument left


 


Margaret Thatcher


 


If opponents don’t begin with pieces of the same number and value


and players can think they’re winning when losing


can influencing others’ thoughts enhance results


and vice versa?


 


If opponents think you have more influence and power


do you?


 


The great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance


 as though they were realities


and are often more influenced by the things that seem than those that are


 


Niccolo Machiavelli

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