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• Boredom -- the desire for desires: Leo Tolstoy
• Never appeal to a man's "better nature." He may not have one.
  Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage....
• It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest.
  We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages....
• Law of Communications The inevitable result of improved and enlarged communications between different levels in a hierarchy is a vastly increased area of misunderstanding.
• Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired. -- Robert Fro