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| User: | rakehell (1242587)
Stepping on the Devil's Tail
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| Name: | He could win this game and be the king for good. |
| Location: | Seattle, Washington, United States |
| AOL IM: |  r4kehell (Add Buddy, Send Message) |
| Bio: | Francesca gave me my lj user name as part of a private joke.
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"Caius Marcius....proved that, hard though the lot of an orphan may be, yet it does not prevent a man's becoming great and distinguished, and that the bad alone allege it as an excuse for an intemperate life. He also proves to us that a naturally noble nature, if it be not properly disciplined, will produce many good and bad qualities together, just as a rich field, if not properly tilled, will produce both weeds and good fruit. The immense energy and courage of his mind used to urge him to attempt and to perform great exploits, but his harsh and ambitious temper made it difficult for him to live on friendly terms with his companions. They used to admire his indifference to pleasure and pain, and his contempt for bribes, but in politics they were angered by his morose and haughty manner, too proud for a citizen of a republic."--Plutarch
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"There was no rake~hell, no ruffian, no knaue, no villaine, no cogging raskall, but his hand was in with him." --Angel Day, The English Secretary 44 (1586)
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| Memories: | 59 entries |
| Interests: | 150: battle, battles royal, blaspheming, bluntness, breaking off negotiations, bringing matters to crisis, brooking no dissent, burning hot, canceling, changing the subject, checkmate, circumvention, class warfare, closing with the enemy, coming to close quarters, confrontation, contention, contesting, contradicting, counter-claims, countering, coups de grâce, coups de main, coups de maître, crescendos, crossing swords, cutting to the quick, declining comment, demands, demurral, diametrical opposition, direct confrontation, disaccommodation, disagreement, dismissiveness, disobedience, disproof, disputation, disregard, dissent, divergence, dragooning, droit du seigneur, economics, ending argument, entering the fray, equivalent retaliation, escalation, fait accomplis, faustian pacts, faux-seriousness, fencing, fighting city hall, fire in your veins, flattery, fortissimo, fraying tempers, gall, gaucherie, giving leave to speak, giving no quarter, giving them enough rope, goth girls, having a convenient memory, having the last word, heresy, heterodoxy, high dignity, high-handedness, hotheadedness, humoring others, ignoring, impatience, impertinence, impiety, impugning, incivility, incommodation, inconveniencing, indisposition, inflexibility, ingratitude, insistence, instigating crises, insubmission, insubordination, interrupting, intransigence, machiavelli, making short work of, memorizing poetry, mishearing, narcissism, nietzsche, nonattendance, noncompliance, not accepting parleys, not answering the phone, not entertaining further discussion, objection, obscenity, obsession, obstinance, offending delicate sensibilities, opportunism, opposition, perfectionism, physical strength, playing devil's advocate, political science, political theory, profanity, pugnacity, raising cain, reading the riot act, rebuttal, recalcitrance, refractoriness, refusing argument, refutation, remaining above the fray, ripostes, rows, running the gauntlet, scandal, seduction, self-absorption, self-aggrandizement, self-dramatization, self-importance, self-indulgence, self-interest, single-mindedness, sophistry, stalling, stonewalling, stubbornness, study, succès de scandale, taking no prisoners, tardiness, the squeaky wheel, throwing down the gauntlet, touché, tough love, turning the tables, twisting the knife, unholy rows, unmitigated gall, vanity |
| Schools: | Brandeis University, International Business School - Waltham, MA
Columbia University - New York, NY
University of Chicago - Chicago, IL
Università Bocconi - Milano, Lombardia, Italy
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