Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
Results are often obtained by impetuosity and daring which could never have been obtained by ordinary methods.
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Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.
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For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or it can be the result of scratches and incisions. The aim is to maintain the energy created by disturbance or excitement in the street.
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When I was a teenager, I experimented a lot with hair colour, and the result was just awful.
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institution of private property.
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Therefore only an utterly senseless person can fail to know that our characters are the result of our conduct.
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We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.
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Patrick is going to see that he made some real good things. He hit some deep balls and made some key plays for us, and that's partly what I'm referring to. And then he turned the ball over. We can't do that and Patrick knows that.
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That was the first time we got manhandled by somebody in the regular season. Our guys just took it upon themselves. They knew what needed to be done and they knew they needed to play hard.
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We had a miserable first year (6-10 in 2004), and that's real hard on you. So you go in the second year knowing you've got to make something happen. Being able to get 10 wins, that helps a lot. It gives the whole organization confidence. If we hadn't gotten into the playoffs, it would've been a real downer. Getting in the playoffs was somewhat of a turning point for us.
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In Christian work our initiative and motivation are too often simply the result of realizing that there is work to be done and that we must do it. Yet that is never the attitude of a spiritually vigorous saint. His aim is to achieve the realization of Jesus Christ in every set of circumstances.
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It's a question of methods. Everybody wants results, but nobody wants to do what they have to do to get them done.
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It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying through the stratosphere, or landing on the moon. First-rate pursuits - involving, as they must, trying to understand what life is about and trying to convey that understanding - inevitably result in a sense of failure. A Napoleon, a Churchill, or a Roosevelt can feel himself to be successful, but never a Socrates, a Pascal, or a Blake. Understanding is forever unattainable.
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All results of the profoundest mathematical investigation must ultimately be expressible in the simple form of properties of the integers.
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This is an extremely good result. I am delighted to have polled well above predictions. I go into the next round with real momentum.
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People experience all kinds of prejudice because of all different parts of themselves. And that doesn't make one part more important than the other. We live in a society that does not openly accept every kind of human being. And so the result is when you are yourself and someone who's marginalized, it becomes a revolutionary act - just being comfortable in your own body and being comfortable speaking, sharing your ideas. It's really amazing and also, like, kind of sad.
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I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.
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No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.
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What I cannot live with may not bother another man's conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience.
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I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.
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This new offering is a result of increasing demand for lower numerical ratios. With our new 2.50 axle ratio, customers can now travel at a cruising speed without sacrificing their fuel mileage..
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Results are often obtained by impetuosity and daring which could never have been obtained by ordinary methods.
