Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
Decide which is the line of conduct that presents the fewest drawbacks and then follow it out as being the best one, because one never finds anything perfectly pure and unmixed, or exempt from danger.
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I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.
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You get to a place where you do your job, and then you dust your hands off and say, 'Okay, my job is done. Now, it's in the stars. We'll see what happens.' There's nothing I can do to affect it.
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I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.
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In this post 9-11 world we live in, it is critical we take steps to improve the safety and security of the Trucking Industry which has proven to be our most mobile and flexible mode of transporting goods.
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Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.
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It's creepy to see fan sites about me.
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What more can you ask for than to see a ballgame in spring?
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Before I paint someone, I always ask, 'How much examination can your body take?' 'How much do you want me to see?'
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The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!
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When I was a boy, cricket was very, very English. Anyone who spoke English and anyone from a big town could play. And that was it.
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You will attract the younger generation and they might well prove tougher than the older generation. What we are trying to do is to look at the future and see what we can do to bring some stability back to people's lives.
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You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.
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He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.
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I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.
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Getting a new passport took me a stupid amount of time. I had to go back five times with different photographs because they kept saying I was smiling, which is against the rules. I was not smiling.
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No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.
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The truth is, as long as nuclear weapons exist, we are not safe.
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The strongest of all arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct, is that when it does interfere, the odds are that it interferes wrongly, and in the wrong place.
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I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister 'There's an Asian person on television!' It was unheard of back then.
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Decide which is the line of conduct that presents the fewest drawbacks and then follow it out as being the best one, because one never finds anything perfectly pure and unmixed, or exempt from danger.
