Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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My celeb crush is Julia Louis-Dreyfus. She's hysterical, she's beautiful, and she seems like a normal person. I'm in love with her.
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I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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I'm not on Twitter or Facebook. I've never been interested in being on any of them. I don't know why I'm not. I just don't have that need. I feel like I'm one of the only people I know who doesn't do it.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'
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I'm really fascinated by lingos and colloquialisms that are outmoded and have gone by the wayside. I love the way people spoke in the '30s, and the amazing slang of the mid-'60s and '70s.
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I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years.
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Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.
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This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.
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When we were in Sweden, there was a fan that hid in a bin. I think one of the security guards saw and tried to take her out, and she went a bit crazy and started tackling them.
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To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.
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There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have.
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When I’m alone in my room sometimes I stare at the wall, and in the back of my mind I hear my conscience call.
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I learned early that the richness of life is found in adventure. Adventure calls on all the faculties of mind and spirit. It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. But man is not ready for adventure unless he is rid of fear. For fear confines him and limits his scope. He stays tethered by strings of doubt and indecision and has only a small and narrow world to explore.
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There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter.
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I was lucky to move around different cultures at an early age and have experience of different lifestyles.
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Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.
