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The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Business Law

by Constance E. Bagley

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Matt’s Quotes

“I am not deep, but I am very wide.”
― Balzac

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“The demand to give up the illusions about its condition is the demand to give up a condition that needs illusions”
― Karl Marx

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“All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.”
― Sun tzu, The Art of War

tags: deception, strategy, tactics, war, warfare

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“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”
― Marcel Proust

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“But although the cliche says that power always corrupts, what is seldom said ... is that power always reveals. When a man is climbing, trying to persuade others to give him power, concealment is necessary. ... But as a man obtains more power, camouflage becomes less necessary.”
― Robert A. Caro, The Passage of Power

tags: human-nature, power

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