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Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I think a lot can be said for consolidation, but I think it should be done for the right reasons.

— Margrethe Vestager

Sequestration is leverage that should not be given up easily.

— Max Baucus

I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction.

— William Banting

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

— Socrates

We're now segregating our schools based on economics; we're segregating our schools based on where a child's parents live. And it has the same corrosive effect of destroying people's opportunity as racial segregation did.

— David Boies

Once you get rid of integrity the rest is a piece of cake.

— Larry Hagman

The marginal cost of doing something 'just this once' always seems to be negligible, but the full cost will typically be much higher. Yet unconsciously, we will naturally employ the marginal-cost doctrine in our personal lives.

— Clayton Christensen

We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.

— Robert Hall

The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.

— Moshe Dayan

Sequestration will make it extremely challenging - and in many cases impossible - for employees to meet their mortgage payments, pay their healthcare expenses, plan for retirement, or help their children attend college. To be blunt, these families are at risk.

— Pete Gallego

✗Opposing Perspectives

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