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“It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.” quote by Thucydides — Download Open image

“It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.”

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[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could, and still things get worse in Tibet." If you look at it from one point of view, as he himself says, his monastic position of forbearance and nonviolence hasn't reaped any benefits. And yet, he's thinking…

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We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so as to…

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We accept it as normal that people who have never been on the land, who have no history or connection to the country, may legally secure the right to come in and, by the very nature of their enterprises, leave in their wake a cultural and physical landscape utterly transformed and desecrated. What's more, in granting such mining concessions, often…

In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong.

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The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession…

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Nobody gets to threaten the full faith and credit of the United States just to extract political concessions.

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I believe that I am more conservative than George W. Bush. However, it is important to note that he has had to govern, which…

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Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857, 1869, 1873, 1907, 1929 and 1987.In economies and politics, as in war, an astonishing number of people die, like the man on the railway crossing, defending their right of way. This is a poorly developed instinct in Switzerland.…

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