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" For the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order, this lukewarmness... "
Frontiers of Development Economics: The Future in Perspective - Page 369
edited by - 2001 - 575 pages
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Micromanpower Planning in the Public Sector

J. Kenneth Davies, Colin Wright - 1975 - 636 pages
...by the new order. This lukewarmness arises partly from fear of their adversaries, who have the law in their favor, and partly from the incredulity of...truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it . This quotation is not meant to suggest a portrait of a manpower planner as...
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Envisioning a Sustainable Society: Learning Our Way Out

Lester W. Milbrath - 1989 - 432 pages
...profit by the new order. The lukewarmness arises partly from the fear of their adversaries who have law in their favor; and partly from the incredulity of...truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it. (Machiavelli, The Prince, 1513) The day is short and the work is great.......
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The Death of Industrial Civilization: The Limits to Economic Growth and the ...

Joel Jay Kassiola - 1990 - 320 pages
...lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order, this lukewarmness arising partly from fear of their adversaries, who have the laws in their...truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it. 23 For the aims of those prescribing industrial society's transformation,...
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Pathways from the Periphery: The Politics of Growth in the Newly ...

Stephan Haggard - 1990 - 300 pages
...this lukewarmness arising partly from fear of their adversaries, who have the laws in their favour; and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do...truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it. Thus it arises that on every opportunity for attacking the reformer, his opponents...
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Energy: Production, Consumption, and Consequences

National Academy of Engineering - 1990 - 304 pages
...by the new order. This lukewarmness arises partly from fear of their adversaries, who have the law in their favor, and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything g CD ic new until they have had actual experience of it. CD O) CL C CD m n iJ ai c? Who wrote that,...
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Worldwide Science and Technology Advice to the Highest Levels of Governments

William T. Golden - 452 pages
...order. This lukewarmness arises partly from fear of their adversaries, who have the law in their favour; and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do...truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it. NOTES 1. Both the White Paper (Cmd 185) and the ACOST publication mentioned...
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Engineering as a Social Enterprise

National Academy of Engineering - 1991 - 124 pages
...lukewarmness = ^ ra arises partly from fear of their adversaries, who have the law in their favor; 0=9and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything £ 0 new until they have had actual experience of it. oo .1 Was the author Keynes, Friedman, Drucker?...
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Managing Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Technology-Based Firms

Michael J. C. Martin - 1994 - 422 pages
...this lukewarmness arising partly from fear of their adversaries, who have the laws in their favour, and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do...truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it. MACHIAVELLI In this chapter we will examine the issues and problems faced...
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Diplomat's Dictionary

Charles W. Freeman, Jr. - 1995 - 616 pages
...would profit by the new order, this lukewarmness arising partly from fear of their adversaries, . . . and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do...truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it. Thus it arises that on every opportunity for attacking the reformer, [as]...
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Winning the Next War: Innovation and the Modern Military

Stephen Peter Rosen - 1991 - 292 pages
...order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order . . . [because of] the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it."1 Today, Machiavelli might be even more pessimistic, because the task of political...
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