Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.
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What makes Gucci Mane Gucci Mane is like what made Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra - it's just him. He's trap's Frank Sinatra.
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Dancing doesn't have a language.
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We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.
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One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.
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Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything.
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I like the incongruity of how in Iran, these people we think of as being revolutionaries or fanatics or whatever are just as aware of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader as our people are back home.
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For where shall a man turn who has no money? Where can he go? Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the coins in your hand. Like a tethered goat, so far and no farther. Only money can make the rope stretch, only money.
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They are really just special young ladies. They're daughters. They're great daughters. It felt good today. It felt good to see them smile.
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The mutual sympathy of our peoples is and will remain the foundation of our relations [with Germany].
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The Scripture saith, The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God; it is not said, The fool hath thought in his heart; so as he rather saith it, by rote to himself, as that he would have, than that he can thoroughly believe it, or be persuaded of it....It appeareth in nothing more, that atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.
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A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open to all, rich, blameless and indestructible.
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Life is a struggle and not a matter of privilege. It is nothing but one's knowledge of the temporal and the spiritual world.
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Do not for one repulse, forego the purpose That you resolved to effect.
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State authority can never be an end in itself; for, if that were so, any kind of tyranny would be inviolable and sacred. If a government uses the instruments of power in its hands for the purpose of leading a people to ruin, then rebellion is not only the right but also the duty of every individual citizen.
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The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.
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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.
