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“Because when you think about it, if you go back to think about like, in Machiavelli's The Prince, right?”
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“She nearly cried when we showed her the whiteness contract from that children's book, and I got her to inadvertently argue that Derrick Chauvin should've should have never been convicted and should be released from prison!”
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“He said, 'The Tree of Liberty must be fertilized with the blood of tyrants and patriots.'”
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“Machiavelli who's somebody that not maybe not everybody will be familiar with as you know the the great theorist of republics they think of him as the kind of real politics scheming you know author of The Prince”
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“He did something very clever; he went into the books of Nicolo Machiavelli, who was an advisor to politicians way back when, and he took the statements, administered them to undergraduate students, and simply asked them how much they agreed with these statements.”
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“Anyway, even as they say even Sun Tzu is not Machiavelli, is really the Prince, is really where I think they think that they're trying to kind of, it's a modern version of the Prince because the Prince was much more about politics and much less about warfare.”
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“These are extraordinary skills, and sometimes I felt like I was writing Machiavelli volume two called 'The Princess.'”
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“She just doesn't think it's anybody's business, and that, in fact, here's another lesson from Machiavelli volume two is if you don't give it all away to the public, you know, that liberates a large part of you; that frees a large part of you to actually maintain life as a normal human, which she's about as normal a human”
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“so in the prince um his most famous work i should say historious work he suggests that it is a prince who wishes to stay in power should as well as having um an independent military force of his own citizens”
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“it was only after that that he wrote his his books the books for which he's most famous the prince for example”
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“so I definitely can identify with that last but not least you've mentioned that you would eventually someday maybe like to rewrite Machiavelli the prince for modern day Silicon Valley what would some of the big changes be from that book”