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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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
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But, because my private lectures and domestic pupils are a great hinderance and intteruption of my studies, I wish to live entirely exempt from the former, and in great measure from the latter. ... in short, I should wish to gain my bread from my writings.
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The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself to the greatest extent possible. When you do that, you have dignity. You have the pride. You can walk about with character and pride no matter in what place you happen to finish.
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For all the things I'm losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
