Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
For, in truth, there is no sure way of holding other than by destroying...
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The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
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Tell the truth.
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I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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Truth be told, actually, my favorite director of the Movie Brats was not Scorsese. Loved him. But my favorite director of the Movie Brats was Brian de Palma. I actually met De Palma right after I'd done 'Reservoir Dogs,' and I was very beside myself.
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Regulators are going to have to come up with a way to treat Bitcoin that is balanced and thoughtful but also recognize that this is a global phenomenon.
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
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You only can rest when have the truth, even when it's horrible.
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Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
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The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I'd love to do.
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You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.
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The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But the long-term solution is to get more vaccine production within the U.S.
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The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.
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If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
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I think that one day I won't have any kind of... sort of, or it will be either way, I won't have to think about anything. But at the moment, god I think probably because of what I do and the nature of how it is, I'm all over the place all of the time.
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My iron game. I get into trouble a lot with my driver, so I tend to hit 3-wood off the tee.
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Let me realize that my past failures at follow-through are no indication of my future performance. They're just healthy little fires that are gonna warm up my ass
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I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, 'Why don't you just call?'
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At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring by fits and starts.
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For, in truth, there is no sure way of holding other than by destroying...
