Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.
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An ambitious, surreal tale of the love between a young Arab girl sold into marriage and the orphan boy she adopts, 'Habibi' spans multiple eras of conflict and change, stretching the lifetimes of its two protagonists over many centuries.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.
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The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.
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Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth.
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If you hate the Jewish people, you are not reflecting the teachings of Christ.
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When a project has an ample budget, I am interested now in using bigger units of materials.
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I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.
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We believe in the dignity of man as an individual, whatever his race, colour or creed, and his right to better, fuller, and richer life.
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Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.
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Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I think they're too good. Problem is, what they're doing is conditioning kids to merely accept the culture at hand. But the rebels won't accept it.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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For boys like me, in north Indian railway towns in the '70s and '80s, where nothing much happened apart from the arrival and departure of trains from big cities, the Soviet Union alone appeared to promise an escape from our limited, dusty world.
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The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.
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Beauty is very much broader than just to the eye. It is our whole, positive response to life. An artist is fortunate in that his work is the inner contemplation of beauty, of perfection in life. We cannot make anything perfectly, but with inner contemplation of perfection, we can suggest it.
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... when demand is being destroyed by expensive oil just as expensive oil is incentivising increased production - it should come as no surprise that at some point the markets would react.
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The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.
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I learned long ago that when change comes, you gotta slow down and take note of it. In the midst of that change is all the possibility in the world.
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They saw Cade’s army swelling into the open like a burst blister.
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I know that every time I step on the stage it's a real gift, so I try not to take it for granted, and I try to make it an experience that the public can really participate in.
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Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.
