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“It depends on what your definition of ‘is’ is,” he told his tormentors, and many Americans shook their heads in wonder, not only at the ridiculousness of the statement, but at the tenacity and toughness of a true Machiavelli who would not, could not, let his enemies use their version of the truth to defeat him.”
― Stanley Bing, What Would Machiavelli Do?: The Ends Justify the Meanness – A Pithy, Vicious Guide to Corporate Warfare and Power