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Drawn from what John Jay said
ambition How much to take on and how hard to push: superlinear returns to effort, focus, slack time, and procrastination.
war Armed conflict and preparing for it: military spending, alliances, and what changes when machines are in the loop.
It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything by it; nay, absolute monarchs will often make war when their nations are to get nothing by it, but for the purposes and objects merely personal, such as thirst for military glory, revenge for personal affronts, ambition, or private compacts to aggrandize or support their particular families or partisans.
Where this was said
↗The Federalist Papers (1787-1788)gutenberg.org
All 27 korrents from this piecethis one is 3rd
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