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As Lincoln said, you destroy an enemy when you make a friend of him.
Robert Greene • The 48 Laws of Power
我们知道，中国从秦以后就是一个大一统的国家，这样的国家幅员辽阔、民族复杂、风俗各异，治理这么复杂的国家，要想长治久安，在政治上，实行一种既有适当的中央集权，又能放手让臣下让地方自我管理的政治机制，可能 是最为合理的方式，而这背后就有老子理论的支撑，那就是以本制末，以一统万。
如果说老子的学说为中国古代中央集权体制提供了方便法门，这是不全面的。其实老子思想里面，还有今天看来民本主义、民主主义的浓厚色彩。除了“道物二分”，老子思想里面还有一条主线，那就是从“无为”到“自然”。前... See more
It’s not clear whether Lincoln recalled, or even had read, Adams’s message to Congress in 1825. Both shared, though, this central point: that “liberty is power,” and that “the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers be the most powerful nation upon earth.”87 To that end, Lincoln
John Lewis Gaddis • On Grand Strategy
To Bruce Lee, philosophy was not the professional playground of academics, but every human being’s gateway to the greatest adventure of the human spirit.