Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
I say that every prince must desire to be considered merciful and not cruel. He must, however, take care not to misuse this mercifulness.
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.
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Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.
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I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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Instead of locking people up and throwing away the key, it's important to invest in them and show them another way - show them what they can do, instead of telling them what they can't do. Because by investing in youth, we're investing into the future of this great nation of the United States of America.
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All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
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I don't know if my songs fit in films.
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It gives a different kind of high when, as an actor, I get to submit myself to the character I play.
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I've been in so many love triangles on TV and in real life.
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For me, writing is a love – hate relationship.
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The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
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Oh, blank confusion! true epitome Of what the mighty City is herself, To thousands upon thousands of her sons, Living amid the same perpetual whirl Of trivial objects, melted and reduced To one identity.
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It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.
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When I moved to Chicago, I was coming from a school that didn't have any arts in Alabama. I essentially came from a town where the arts didn't exist and the desire for education didn't exist and wasn't valued.
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I get along quite well with someone only when he is at his lowest point and has neither the desire nor the strength to restore his habitual illusions.
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As soon as I made it about being healthy and shifted my focus away from the scale, the weight started to come off. I keep track of my body by how my jeans fit - and how I feel.
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I say that every prince must desire to be considered merciful and not cruel. He must, however, take care not to misuse this mercifulness.
