listening to "Andain - Beautiful Things (Taken from Tiësto In Concert DVD)"
listening to "Coldplay - The Scientist"
listening to "Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven Live (HD)"
listening to "Metallica - One (live)"
listening to "Tiesto ft. Nelly Furtado - Who Wants To Be Alone"
listening to "Scorpions - Send Me An Angel"
$3,350 required now. I have no clue how I am going to raise that kind of money. I did feel a moral obligation to commit that amount.
I have had this sinking feeling before; To feel startled and scared everytime I hear the doorbell or the phone ringing, praying that it isn’t a debtor.
:-(
I have only myself to blame for not saving money over the years.
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“To reconstitute political life in a state presupposes a good man, whereas to have recourse to violence in order to make oneself prince in a republic supposes a bad man. Hence very rarely will there be found a good man ready to use bad methods in order to make himself prince, though with a good end in view.
Nor will any reasonable man blame him for taking any action, however, extraordinary, which may be of service in the organizing of a kingdom or the constituting of a republic. It is a sound maxim that reprehensible actions may be justified by their effects, and that when the effect is good, it always justifies the action. For it is the man who uses to spoil things, not the man who uses it to mend them, that is blameworthy.
A prince should therefore disregard the reproach of being thought cruel where it enables him to keep his subjects united and loyal. For he who quells disorder by a very few signal examples will in the end be more merciful than he who from too great leniency permits things to take their course and so result in chaos and bloodshed; for these hurt the whole state, whereas the serverities of the Prince injure individuals only.
It is essential therefore, for a Prince who desires to maintain his position, to have learned how to be other than good, and to use or not use his goodness as necessity requires.
Everyone sees what you seem to be, but few know what you are.”
” — Niccolo Machiavelli from The Prince and The Discourses“Middle age is when you’ve met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else” — Ogden Nash