Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.
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Levi's can produce many more Western jeans than we can and make them at a better price.
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You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.
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No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
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Common perceptions of female friendships are morning coffees discussing children, bags, periods and agreeing about the misdemeanours of men... mild, soft, nurturing relationships.
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I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.
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A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
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Every retailer, when they price their goods, looks at their total cost overall. When they have costs go up, they'll price their products accordingly.
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My friendships are very important to me.
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Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
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We will work to bring an element of stability to the price of oil.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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Select your friendships carefully. Gather people around you who will reinforce your lifestyle.
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I'm anxious about work, the future, friendships, past relationships... I'm just one of those people that, whatever I'm doing, it's a big worry.
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I definitely think that touring is a really crazy lifestyle and makes it hard to live a normal life and have relationships and friendships.
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You can't explain why people are friends and why those friendships last, but there certainly is magic in it. It's just something that you treasure.
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I said, wouldn't it be nice, instead of having these women fight with each other over men, which seems to be more of a cliche, wouldn't it be wonderful if they were the true comrades and it took these men much more time to infiltrate their friendships.
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I'm just talking specifically of women's friendships. If two women go to a bar and they are fighting over men, it makes it much easier for the men. If two women are very close and they act as it makes it very difficult for the men to pull one over on anybody.
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I think President Obama views Israel as a problem that needs to be solved.
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Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science.
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I've done a lot of different kinds of things, so different people remember me for different things.
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I do not know what will happen in China politically. I do know that it is impossible to maintain the communist system or probably even a strict one-party system when the economy becomes so pluralistic. Now, what form that takes and what institutions will evolve, I do not have a clear view about. I do not think the United States, as a general principle, ought to intervene in this.
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....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.