“Manipulation is an art, but it is a double-edged knife and can be a dangerous weapon in the wrong hands.”
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“Art is a weapon and the weapons can change the world.”
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Good art is irreverent, excessive, controversial, incorrect, irritating, ironic, bad behaving, playful and beautiful or ugly.

“Size is a double-edged sword with great advantages and disadvantages..”
Interview with Harvard Investment Magazine (Winter 2005) http://www.harvardinvestmentmagazine.org/current/griffin.htm
Response to question about managing a large hedge fund.
“Candor is always a double-edged sword; it may heal or it may separate.”
Marriage at the Crossroads (1931), p. 73