Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
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Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.
Ramana Maharshi
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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.
Barry McGee
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When I was a teenager, I experimented a lot with hair colour, and the result was just awful.
Irina Shayk
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
Oscar Wilde
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
W. Edwards Deming
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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.
Oscar Wilde
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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.
Harry Callahan
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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.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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All results of the profoundest mathematical investigation must ultimately be expressible in the simple form of properties of the integers.
Leopold Kronecker
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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.
Liam Fox
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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.
Amandla Stenberg
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I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.
Oscar Wilde
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Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.
Baruch Spinoza
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In fact, the American Mastodon vanished around thirteen thousand years ago. Its demise was part of a wave of disappearances that has come to be known as the megafauna extinction. This wave coincided with the spread of modern humans and, increasingly, is understood to have been a result of it. In this sense, the crisis Cuvier discerned just beyond the edge of recorded history was us.
Elizabeth Kolbert
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It was just as the 1914 War burst on me that I made the discovery that 'legends' depend on the language to which they belong; but a living language depends equally on the 'legends' which it conveys by tradition. ... Volapuk, Esperanto, Ido, Novial, &c &c are dead, far deader than ancient unused languages, because their authors never invented any Esperanto legends.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Pay enough for anything and it passes for taste.
Sue Grafton
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To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.
Alex Grey
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Results are often obtained by impetuosity and daring which could never have been obtained by ordinary methods.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
