Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all the good things worked by you before become vain.
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John Green was on the set of 'The Fault In Our Stars' the entire time, which is amazing! Wouldn't you want John Green on set the entire time?
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals.
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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My father and his eight siblings grew up in the kind of poverty that Americans don't like to talk about unless a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina strikes, and then the conversation only lasts as long as the news cycle. His family squatted in shacks. The children scavenged for food.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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Ability is nothing without opportunity.
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However, the Bible is called the Word of God because the whole transcript is an inspired, faithful, and infallible record of what God determined essential for us to know about Himself, the cosmos in which we live, our spiritual allies and adversaries, and our fellow man.
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We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.
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I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.
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I find it easier to strike the ball with my instep across goal. But I've scored in loads of other ways, too.
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To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed.
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Since I could read, I always had my nose in a book.
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Love is like nothing else on this earth, but only when it is shared with someone wonderful like you.
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I love this country. And when you are given an opportunity to help your country, in what is one of the most volatile times we've seen in a long time, there's no way I'm not going to step up to do everything I can and make us strong.
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I don't want to go back to WWE and burn out within four or five months, and having another run as TNA world champion would feel just as good.
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My first official consulting job, therefore, was for a scrap metal dealer (he resented the term 'junk dealer') in East Edmonton named Benny Sugarman.
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I don't think action alone is enough to sustain a film franchise. There are tons of action movies out there that come and go and people don't care about.
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The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of war.
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A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all the good things worked by you before become vain.
