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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (23966)5/4/1999 6:37:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 71178
 
"You always learn something by reading the classics. Particularly The
Prince. I go through and look at this from this intellectual point of
view. Machiavelli had these three classes of mind. The first class
was the person that was creative enough to be leader and be able to
lead a great nation without much help. The second class of mind was
one that wasn't creative but could take ideas, put people around him,
and be able to lead nations forward. And the third class of people
didn't really know much of anything. And they were the worst kind of
leaders, because not only were they not creative, but they didn't know
what was right or wrong, and they just sort of went by whatever they
felt like. I've tried to figure out where I am. I know I'm not the
first because I don't think I have the creativeness that Machiavelli
talks about. If I go back and reread it I might figure it out exactly
where I put myself. I'm somewhere between two and one."
Senator Dan Quayle gives his opinion of the book
"The Prince," 9/28/88 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)