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33 Strategies Of War — Quote 264

When dealing with people who are bored and have short attention spans, you must entertain them, sneaking your ideas in through the back door. With leaders you must be careful and indirect perhaps using third parties to disguise the source of the ideas you are trying to spread. With the young your expression must be more violent. In general your words must have movement, sweeping readers along never calling attention to their own cleverness. You are not after personal expression but power and influence. The less people consciously focus on the communicative form you have chosen, the less they realise how far your dangerous ideas are burrowing into their minds.

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33 Strategies Of War
Robert Greene
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