Word: machiavellis
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...while. But after eighteen (or is it nineteen?) consecutive challenge victories, Colby looks to have outran and outlasted the curse, and the betting here is that resentment or not, the jury has probably come around to the fact that without a schemer-in-chief to take the Machiavelli prize this season, the man deserves the million on physical and mental prowess alone...
That’s right. Sun-Tzu, Machiavelli, Clausewitz and all those other boutique theorizers aren’t relevant anymore, and war is no longer about inflicting, or plausibly threatening to inflict, more pain than the other side can bear. Christiane Amanpour and CNN change everything...
...that homosexual behavior was "shameful." The aggressive: he said this while testifying in favor of a Colorado constitutional amendment which would have banned laws that specified homosexuality as a distinct category for legal protection. The passive: he said that laws protecting specifically gays would patronize them (an argument Machiavelli sort of makes in his Discourses on Livy). And though the BGLSA (it didn't have a "T" that year) might have hated him, several of its members liked and respected Mansfield personally...
HYPOTHETICAL SITUATION: A student is assigned a paper on Machiavelli's indirect government. The student turns in a paper with the following thesis: "Machiavelli's indirect government laid the groundwork for a current system of patronizing rule." However, as the professor reads past the thesis, he discovers that this student provides no evidence to support his claim. Instead he says: "Machiavelli's indirect government laid the groundwork for a current system of patronizing rule because I believe that is the truth...
...have anything to say or protest, say it now because the lecture is on the topic of Machiavelli, not on anything [else] I've said," he said...