Power politics existed before Machiavelli was ever heard of; it will exist long after his name is only … - Max Lerner

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Our opponents see an America in which every day is April 15, tax day. Well, we see an America in which every day is the Fourth of July.

Max Lerner

Power politics existed before Machiavelli was ever heard of; it will exist long after his name is only a faint memory. What he did, like Harvey, was to recognize its existence and subject it to scientific study.

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Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.

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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

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