Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
Anyone who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it may expect to be destroyed by it; for such a city may always justify rebellion in the name of liberty and its ancient institutions.Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.
Randall Jarrell -
This is precisely why you choose to run for office and get elected. You're asking the people to let you be their voice. I don't think there is a more powerful and intense experience than the opportunity to be the voice of the 307 million people living in this country.
Xavier Becerra -
I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'
J. Cole -
You want your coach's blessing.
Candace Parker -
Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
Ha-Joon Chang -
In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State.
Patrick J. Kennedy
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There are essential elements for our public schools to fully develop the potential of both students and educators. They should be centers of community, where students, families and educators work together to support student success. They should foster collaboration.
Randi Weingarten -
Only amazing designers think of the truly new.
Patrick Demarchelier -
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
Edith Sitwell -
I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.
Gavin DeGraw -
Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
P. J. O'Rourke
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Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my career: to be able to get up in the morning and do what I love doing.
Tana French -
The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!
Larry Williams -
What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.
Kapil Sibal -
I'll probably have to open a recording studio at some point because I won't be able to pay the bills.
Mac DeMarco -
I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.
Aaron Rodgers -
It's hard for me to generalize about kids and divorce. I think every family's experience is different; some kids are devastated by it, others relieved, and so forth, no matter what generation they're from.
Kate Christensen
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It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country.
Jon Meacham -
It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is.
James Mill -
When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
We may have been born on third base, but we worked like we were starting from home plate. You know: batter up.
Tyler Winklevoss -
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Muhammad Ali -
Anyone who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it may expect to be destroyed by it; for such a city may always justify rebellion in the name of liberty and its ancient institutions.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli