Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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Zoroastrians believe in one Great Almighty Spirit of Good who is in combat against evil forces, and Goodness prevails in the end. There is no self-flagellation or staring at the sun or snake-handling.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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I like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
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I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
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You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
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Do you know what integration really means? It means intermarriage. That's the real point behind it. You can't have it without intermarriage. And that would result in disintegration of both races.
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
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It is incredibly important to set goals for your business, as if you have no direction for your business, your online business will be a failure.
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Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.
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Siberia is a state of mind.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.
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I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability - the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.
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If we have one real strength, it's commitment and determination.
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The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.
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There has to be room for people to make mistakes and lead their own lives.
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All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.
