Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
Violence must be inflicted once for all; people will then forget what it tastes like and so be less resentful. Benefits must be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
Garry Kasparov
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In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.
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Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.
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I'm not a pop singer; I'm not a jazz singer. And I know I sing like not a whole lot of people do; I also know that a lot of other people act like I do. And better than I do. But what informs the singing is the acting. They're not separate from each other.
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I've always been able to make choices that don't embarrass me.
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
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It is clear that rituals and sacrifices can bring people together, and it may well be that a group that does such things has an advantage over one that does not. But it is not clear why a religion has to be involved. Why are gods, souls, an afterlife, miracles, divine creation of the universe, and so on brought in?
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Violence must be inflicted once for all; people will then forget what it tastes like and so be less resentful. Benefits must be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
