Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
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From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation.
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I dropped out of the business for 8 years, and I taught English as a second language. Then I decided to go back to acting, and I got 'Mad Men'.
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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
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Really hairy backs on men turn me off. I'm not into the ape thing at all. Or beer bellies and flabby arms, either. Also, one random nose hair which is longer than the others... that's gross.
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When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
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It takes me so long to get tired of a man. It's women that are the problem. Don't get me wrong. I think men have their problems just as much as women.
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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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Equality for men and women, across the world, not only in sports, is the goal. We obviously have a long way to go, but every little bit helps.
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Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for the talented few, centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living as to have no aims higher than their bellies and no God greater than Gold.
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Vulnerability is huge. I love to see that in characters. It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done.
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Live beyond your means, then you're forced to work hard, you have to succeed.
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The one thing I'm really the most confident in as an artist is my songwriting ability and ear for pop music. I'm really excited to show that off. It was a side that I wasn't able to show on 'American Idol.'
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And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floorShall be lifted - nevermore!
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Man has little needs and deeper needs. We have fallen into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have almost lost our deeper needs in a sort of madness.
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Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
