Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.

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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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You need your mom and dad to protect you. It means they love you so much.
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I'm training and preparing because nothing is predictable in boxing. I'm preparing for those rounds, and if it happens that I get a shot, whatever advantage I have, I will be ready for 12 rounds.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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My career is a journey for me, and any journey is incomplete without the struggle.
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I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my husband. I am beautiful to my friends. I feel sexy and all those things with the people I love.
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I'm always drawn to stories about characters who are somewhat isolated inside themselves by their inability to communicate in some way. That's what interested me about 'Children of a Lesser God.'
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.
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I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
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The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.
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It is kind of cliche to say you like a man to smell like a man, but I really do. My husband can go three or four days without taking a shower and the man never smells.
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The end of a picture is always an end of a life.
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To get home you had to end the war. To end the war was the reason you fought it. The only reason.
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The most magical moments for me come from the little ones in elementary school. They ask adorable and meaningful questions.
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The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.