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— Niccolo Machiavelli"Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion."
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because no one can ever be efficient enough, just as no one can ever be virtuous enough.
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