Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
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The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.
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When I was a child, I felt at times that I had been born into an insane asylum, that much of human life appeared to be an insane asylum. It was bewildering.
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Harry S. Truman had his moods. His birthplace is the only tourist attraction in America where you don't see Japanese with cameras.
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I believe that people should be able to question things.
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People treat you according to your energy or what you put out there, so what I put out there is very open. I'm not paranoid or scared, I'm open. That's how I treat people, with respect and speak truthfully.
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I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.
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When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don't get carried away-it's only dresses.
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We hang in there with some pretty good basketball teams. (But) there is no substitute for experience. Young teams don't win against good teams.
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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
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To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.
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If a man sets his heart on benevolence he will be free from evil.
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Those who have much are often greedy; those who have little often share.
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A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows.
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Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.
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There are people who view their feminism in different ways. I used to beat myself up if I didn't react to things like I was supposed to.
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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
