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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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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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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New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
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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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We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.
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I know this for sure, that doing good actually makes you better.
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With old liars who have been acting all their lives there are moments when they enter so completely into their part that they tremble or shed tears in earnest, although at that very moment, or a second later, they are able to whisper to themselves, "You know you are lying, you shameless old sinner! You're acting now, in spite of your 'holy' wrath.
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There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life.
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Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept
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Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.
