Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm.
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I was very successful, and I graduated with honors. And then I called my dad, who still lives in London, and I said, 'Dad, thanks for college, but I'm going to go act now.' It didn't go over very well.
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I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.
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Member for Islwyn was going to have a single currency willy-nilly. He has already made up his mind. The argument that he uses is that, if others have it, we must. That is an argument for a flock of sheep, not for people who are sent here to analyse the problem and to use our minds and our reason to say which course we should follow.
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Girls are almost always socialized to be perfect: 'Smile, do well in school, don't take too many risks.'
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Anytime I'm locked out of somewhere with another person, I can usually pick the lock successfully. And then I feel like James Bond.
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Not everything is going to be handed to you just because you're talented with a big smile. Sometimes you just gotta get out and shoot jumpers for hours and hours and hours. That's something I didn't really get a grasp on until way later, waking up early and treating it like a job if you're serious about it. Get the freak up and, you know, work.
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'24' was so serious that it was nice to join 'NCIS' and even be able to smile once or twice.
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Usually when I mention suspended animation, people will flash me the Vulcan sign and laugh.
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Anytime you share life stories with other people, you know, you are acknowledging their humanity and kind of accessing some things about yourself, and other people start to expect things about themselves. It's kind of like a fellowship.
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Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.
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But I've got ideas. I keep my little notebook, I've always got that with me. Hopefully there's more stuff than nonsense in there.
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I can't remember the first time, but I've worked with supermodels almost from day one.
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I'd argue that the term 'superhero' is much too broadly used.
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Urban legend has it that Area 51 is connected by underground tunnels and trains to other secret facilities around the country.
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Aww, come on man, I can barely handle 6 strings.
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Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
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English is the only interesting thing that's left in my life.
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The term comics long ago became obsolete and inaccurate. It merely defined the content of the early joke-based comical strips. Sequential Art is a more accurate description of the form. I first suggested it because I believed something needed to be done to correct the feeling of inferiority by artists and writers in this field.
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Lexicographers are language reporters.
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In order to write about the machine you have to know it, to live with it, to love it (or hate it). I think that true writing could be done on industrial subjects by people who work in industry, who are firmly linked with it. But ... and here is the opposite 'but', the technology of literary craftsmanship is itself a very fine and complex matter. Qualified specialists from industry prove themselves dilettantes in the field of literature. The needed synthesis is not yet in sight.
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For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm.
