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I know you're taking it in the teeth out there, but the first guy through the wall, he always gets bloody. Always. This is threatening not just a way of doing business, but in their minds, it's threatening the game. Really what it's threatening is their livelihoods, it's threatening their jobs. It's threatening the way that they do things. And every time that happens, whether it's the government, or a way of doing business, or whatever it is, the people who are holding the reins—they have their hands on the switch—they go batshit crazy.

Moneyball

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Moneyball. Directed by Bennett Miller, Columbia Pictures/Scott Ruding Productions/Michael De Luca Productions/Rachael Horovitz Productions/Plan B Entertainment, 2011.

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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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Machiavelli, Niccolò. Il Principe [The Prince]. Rome: Antonio Blado d'Asola, 1532.

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Machiavelli, Nicolò. The Prince, translated by Peter Bondanella. Oxford University Press, 2005.

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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

John Locke

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding

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Locke, John. "The Epistle Dedicatory." An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. London: Thomas Basset, 1690.

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Locke, John. "The Epistle Dedicatory." An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, edited by Roger Woolhouse. Penguin Classics, 1998.

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If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

Giuseppe di Lampedusa

The Leopard

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Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi. Il Gattopard [The Leopard]. Feltrinelli, 1958, ch. 1.

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Lampedusa, Giuseppe. The Leopard, translated by Archibald Colquhoun. Pantheon, 2007, ch. 1.

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