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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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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And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.
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Not only are we lacking wind for the moment but we have a very difficult decision to make for the South Atlantic situation. There are a possible two doorways which could be open -- and there is no guaranteeing either.
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There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when the underdogs have an opportunity to create a surprise.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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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.
