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It's very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.

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If you want to be your own master. . . always be surprised by evil; never anticipate it.

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All ideas advanced to deal with the Florentine noise problem, the Florentine traffic problem, are Utopian, and nobody believes in them, just as nobody believed in Machiavelli's Prince, a Utopian image of the ideally self-interested despot.

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