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“I think political people are afraid of me.”
Mark Cuban
Politics
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Fear
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Influence
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Perception
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Power Dynamics
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“Does it make you feel big to make a little boy cry?”
Neil Gaiman
Bullying
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Empathy
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Power Dynamics
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Childhood
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Cruelty
3.
“Be not ashamed, my brothers, to stand before the proud and the powerful With your white robe of simpleness. Let your crown be of humility, your freedom the freedom of the soul. Build God’s throne daily upon the ample bareness of your poverty And know that what is huge is not great and pride is not everlasting.”
Rabindranath Tagore
Humility
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Pride
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Simplicity
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Soul Freedom
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Power Dynamics
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“The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.”
Rabindranath Tagore
Falsehood
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Truth
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Power Dynamics
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Integrity
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Moral Principles
5.
“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.”
Thomas Jefferson
Dependence
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Virtue
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Integrity
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Human Nature
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Power Dynamics
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“Dependence leads to subservience.”
Thomas Jefferson
Dependence
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Freedom
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Autonomy
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Self-reliance
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Power Dynamics
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“It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.”
Thomas Jefferson
Despotism
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Control
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Governance
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Power Dynamics
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Society
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“History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.”
Thomas Jefferson
Tyranny
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History
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Society
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Human Nature
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Power Dynamics
9.
“Commands are no constraints.”
John Milton
Freedom
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Authority
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Obedience
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Free Will
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Power Dynamics
10.
“Truth is dissent, where all power resides in the Big Lie.”
Allen Ginsberg
Resistance
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Truth
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Political Awareness
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Social Critique
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Philosophical Reflection
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Power Dynamics
11.
“Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.”
T.S. Eliot
Ambition
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Deception
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Violence
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Power Dynamics
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Moral Corruption
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Human Nature
12.
“The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate...”
Simone Weil
Civilization
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Specialization
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Enslavement
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Social Critique
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Labor Division
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Power Dynamics
13.
“Yes, we are dreaming. Men of action and enterprise are dreamers; they prefer dream to reality. But they use arms to make others dream their dreams. The victor lives his dream; the vanquished lives another's dream.”
Simone Weil
Dreams
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Reality
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Action
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Victory
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Human Ambition
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Power Dynamics
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“Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice.”
Simone Weil
Force
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Love
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Justice
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Respect
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Moral Capacity
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Power Dynamics
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“What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that it should always accompany them.”
Simone Weil
Oppression
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Economy
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Social Critique
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Historical Insight
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Human Nature
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Power Dynamics
16.
“Don't win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room.”
Orson Scott Card
Loyalty
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Obedience
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Leadership
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Fear
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Power Dynamics
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Coercive Control
17.
“Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.”
Orson Scott Card
Argument
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Authority
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Reason
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Impossibility
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Intellectual Freedom
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Power Dynamics
18.
“Remember, I'm the only person her who's paid to be nice to you. But not too nice. Give me any lip and I'll break your face. OK?”
Orson Scott Card
Authority
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Threat
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Professionalism
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Boundaries
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Humor
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Power Dynamics
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“Time to repay old humiliations, is that it, Bean? 'Of course,' Ender said contemptuously. 'I'm not as close to the floor as you are.”
Orson Scott Card
Revenge
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Height
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Contempt
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Humiliation
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Power Dynamics
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Verbal Sparring
20.
“Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid.”
Orson Scott Card
Conflict
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Morality
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Intelligence
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Strength
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Power Dynamics
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Social Hierarchy
21.
“The woman who can’t influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.”
E.M. Forster
Influence
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Marriage
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Voting
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Power Dynamics
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Gender Roles
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Personal Conviction
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“I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.”
E.M. Forster
Distrust
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Men
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Uniformity
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Blood
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Leadership Critique
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Power Dynamics
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“The bully and the victim never quite forget their first relations.”
E.M. Forster
Memory
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Emotional Impact
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Relationships
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Power Dynamics
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Childhood
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Growth
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“It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us. We can recover self-confidence by snubbing the dead.”
E.M. Forster
Power Dynamics
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Historical Reflection
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Timidity
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Human Behavior
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Social Hierarchy
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Confidence Recovery
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“If there’s anything I look down on, it’s a man in a blue outfit.”
Sylvia Plath
Social Critique
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Judgmental Perspective
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Superficiality
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Conformity
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Power Dynamics
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Emotional Distance
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“I began to see why woman-haters could make such fools of women. Woman-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock full of power. They descended, and then they disappeared. You could never catch one.”
Sylvia Plath
Woman Haters
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Invulnerable Gods
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Power Dynamics
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Misogyny
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Deception
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Power
27.
“Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed.”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Political Views
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Liberal Conservative
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Leadership Opinions
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Ideological Differences
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Political Attire
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Power Dynamics
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“Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're trying to tell them what they want to hear. But I find that really good leaders don't want that. They want the truth. And you do them a service, and yourself a service, by just being honest and straightforward.”
Daniel H. Pink
Power Dynamics
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Honest Leaders
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Truth Service
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Integrity
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Leadership
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Courage
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“Realize this: In your struggle for power you will stir up rivalries and create enemies. There will be people you cannot win over, who will remain your enemies no matter what.”
Robert Greene
Power Dynamics
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Conflict Awareness
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Human Rivalry
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Strategic Mindset
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Resilience
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Strategy
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“Power rarely ends up in the hands of those who start a revolution, or even of those who further it; power sticks to those who bring it to a conclusion.”
Robert Greene
Revolution Conclusion
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Power Dynamics
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Strategic Leadership
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Revolution
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Power
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Leadership
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