Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.
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Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.
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At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism.
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AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.
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I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.
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I'm not saying I like to be kicked, but it's good for me to feel I am in the game. Definitely. A motivation.
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Frankly, Milan kind of sucks as a restaurant city. It's so fashion-obsessed that people don't pay that much attention to the food.
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There's a perception that police are less likely to do the marginal additional policing that suppresses crime: the getting out of your car at 2 in the morning and saying to a group of guys, 'What are you doing here?'
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I learned so much about life and other human beings - then about myself.
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I'm a pretty normal person outside of the film world. It doesn't really affect me when I'm at school or with my mates.
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Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
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House music originated in America, and it has always been around, but I guess it just got a tighter hold on Europe and other parts of the world.
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I kind of hate the fact that people are always trying to put you into a category. I hate walls, and I hate boundaries. I don't like that. I listen to everything.
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It's time for all of us to unite across the state of Washington to build a working Washington. Let's get to work.
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You don't say, like the Bush crowd, 'I got this guy over here and I don't like him and I'm gonna get him, whether you back me or not.'
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The journey toward your Big Dream changes you. In fact, the journey itself is what prepares you to succeed at what you were born to do.
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The discovery of HIV in 1983 and the proof that it was the cause of AIDS in 1984 were the first major scientific breakthroughs that provided a specific target for blood-screening tests and opened the doorway to the development of antiretroviral medications.
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Work will take everything you give it. It's up to you to work out what you want to give it.
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I always loved fashion and clothes. Not because I think that's a woman's place, but because I care about aesthetics. I like art; I like going to art museums, and to me, these things are just manifestations of one's aesthetic sense.
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I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought.
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My idea of fast food is a mallard.
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One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy.
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The poems are part of my attempt to understand being in the world in an honest way.
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I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me.
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Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.
